We at the Shrine occasionally like to do our impression of Johnny Carson as the fortune-telling, future-predicting mock-clairvoyant Carnak the Magnificent (As the man himself said, "AWACS missal"--opens envelope--"What Fulton Sheen is holding in the new Madame Tussauds Exhibit"), by making our own predictions about the future of the Church, even if we do not personally own our own turban.
For instance, Drew of the Shrine predicted the Anglican Ordinariates in some form not long after Benedict got elected, as well as, also, in some form, the Motu Proprio. Meanwhile, it appears some of the (wholly imaginary) Holy Whapping Television Network's (HWTN) programming has inavertently come to life in the form of the new major motion picture There be Dragons. (Is it possible to describe a film as an Opus Dei Action-Adventure flick? I mean, one without Dan Brown in it). Admittedly, it's not the Clint Eastwood ripoff The Outlaw JosemarÃa Wales I was hoping for, but still, impressive.
"friends who are separated by the political upheaval of pre-war Spain to find themselves on opposite sides as war erupts. Choosing peace, Josemaria becomes a priest and struggles to spread reconciliation by founding the movement “Opus Dei” (work of God.). Manolo chooses war and becomes a spy for the fascists."
ReplyDeleteA move about St. Josemaria would surely be fascinating, I don't know a single thing about this friend of his, and we can all admit that the alignment of interests in that conflict were complex, but I don't think it's really accurate to say that these two are on "opposite sides." We are already afflicted in this country by a terribly distorted narrative about the Spanish Civil War. It's not clear from the blurb that this production will help it.
Hm, I had not noticed that. It's a pity that any historical treatment of the Spanish Civil War seems insistent on wedging it into some larger and ill-fitting historical narrative.
ReplyDeleteeven if we do not personally own our own turban.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, this might be the most surprising part of the post. Are you sure?
Clearly you have no idea how dull my day-to-day wardrobe is.
ReplyDeleteI *do* have a burnoose I bought when the Morroccan restaurant down the street went out of business and was replaced with a...hummus joint, which suggests some sort of economic microclimate at the corner of 84th and 2nd I was unaware of. I used it for a long time to do drapery studies for my drawings and then paid someone to sew a Maltese cross on it and went to a costume party as Blessed Gerard. For some reason people thought I was Dracula.