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Quote: FrGamble

There is no banned movie list, that is a pure fabrication..

Better write to these folks and tell them that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_condemned_by_the_Legion_of_Decency

http://whatculture.com/film/10-great-films-banned-catholic-church.php

I'll let you tell them but remember to not believe everything you read on the internet.

Quote: FrGamble

I'll let you tell them but remember to not believe everything you read on the internet.

So all these sites are lying about Catholic
condemned movies? You do realize that
you calling 'lies lies' at everything doesn't
work anymore, you've lost most of your
credibility here. I even have people PM'ing
asking 'does FrG ever think about what he's
typing?' Seriously, just because you don't like
something doesn't mean it's a lie. Last week
you said I was lying about smelly Italians on
a city bus. I was there, I smelled it. I wasn't
lying.

If you just look at the links you yourself posted you will clearly see that the Church has no list of banned movies. This legion of decency is a Catholic group that reviews movies and give them a rating, but these movies are not condemned or forbidden to watch. It turns out that you were either lying or misunderstood the links.

But seriously, have you ever been correct about what the Church teaches? It's not the fault of the one calling you out. I think the last example before this one was you saying that the Church views pedophilia the same as ordaining women. Again the very same link you provided gave you the answer that you were wrong. Oh yeah and before that you correctly pointed out that we should listen to those who actually worked with Mother Teresa and then we're embarrassed that the Canadian study never once interviewed anyone who received care or worked with Mother, nor even someone who had met her, nor even a medical professional. I can't think of a time that you were correct about the Church or I have been wrong in correcting you. Maybe you could point out a time when you were correct to help jog my memory.

Quote: FrGamble

If you just look at the links you yourself posted you will clearly see that the Church has no list of banned movies. This legion of decency is a Catholic group that reviews movies and give them a rating, but these movies are not condemned or forbidden to watch

Wrong AGAIN! If a movie got a C rating (condemned by the Church
committee) Catholics were told they cannot see it under penalty of
going to hell. The example they used was, if you saw such a movie
and was hit by a truck on the way home, before you could get to
a priest the next day and ask for forgiveness, you would got straight
to hell. An C rating was the kiss of death for a movie. Catholic churches
posted lists of approved movies and condemned movies on their
bulletin boards so there would be no excuse for somebody seeing a
condemned movie by 'accident'.

'The accompanying NOTES explain why each film has been rated "O" -- morally offensive -- which combines the previous two ratings: B, which stood for "morally objectionable in part for all," and C, "condemned."

https://letterboxd.com/tajlv/list/condemned-films-rated-morally-offensive-by-1/

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But seriously, have you ever been correct about what the Church teaches? .

More often than you have.

A group of Catholic people who are reviewing movies cannot condemn you to hell, nor can watching a movie. This group is making recommendations to help families determine if there is morally objectionable material. I have never seen such reviews on a bulletin board in a Church, nor do I know anyone who waits to see a movie to first see what the Catholic News Service says about it. Even if the Pope reviewed movies he could and would not ever say you were condemned to hell for seeing it. Seriously did you really think and believe such a thing was possible? Do me a favor and admit you are wrong about the Church officially condemning anyone for watching a movie.

Oh can you also refresh my memory for any example when you were correct about something the Church teaches?

Quote: FrGamble

A group of Catholic people who are reviewing movies cannot condemn

My best friend in HS was a devout Catholic,
and he could never go to the same movies
I did. His parents wouldn't let him see any
movies on the Church condemned list. No
Elvis, no surfing movies. Even some westerns.
The Holy See just came out this weekend and
said the new SW movie is morally unacceptable.

Just because you've never heard of all this
doesn't make people liars. Condemned movies
for Catholics were a huge deal when I was a
kid, as was eating meat on Friday. My entire
school served only fishsticks every Fri so no
Catholic kid would go to hell. And yes,
Catholics were told they would go to hell if
they didn't confess seeing a movie the Church
had condemned. Woe be unto you if you were
spotted in a line for tickets at a condemned movie.
The new movieplex idea in the 60's, with 10 or
15 movies in one building, made it much easier
to sneak in for Catholics. Nobody knew what
movie they were in line for.

Quote: Evenbob

The
Catholic Church, being the self appointed
self righteous know it all about everything,
still bans it's members from seeing certain
movies

I like your backpedaling from this original incorrect statement about the Catholic Church banning people from going to movies. I guess that is the best I can hope for in regards to you admitting you were wrong. By the way you should read the Vatican's review of SW, it doesn't condemn it or anyone who sees it. It is a critique. You shouldn't read your experiences as universally true or official proclimations of the universal Church.

Quote: FrGamble

it doesn't condemn it or anyone who sees it. It is a critique.

I never said it was anything else. They
don't like it, but they would never tell
anyone not to see it in these modern
times. They've already lost enough
members, they don't need to lose more.

You really have no idea how seriously
Catholics took the condemned movie
issue. Hollywood would do anything to
avoid a C rating because no Catholics
would be allowed to see it. Watching
a movie on the condemned list was
a mortal sin. In 1956 Cardinal Spellman
himself condemned a movie from the
pulpit, saying:

"exert an immoral and corrupting influence on those who see it", and exhorted all Catholics to refrain from patronizing the film "under pain of sin".

Seeing any condemned movie was a sin,
and supposedly still is.

Again, I think that's as good as I'm going to get. Anyway, have you found any examples of times you have been correct on Church teaching and I was wrong?