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Anyone else watched Fr Stu? Honest Review
« on: April 26, 2022, 10:18:25 AM »
Yes, I already knew it's N.O. bs so I'll be anonymous.
I went to the cinema to see it because I'm willing to break my wallet to support a bit more of Catholic representation. However, I was disappointed, I think not for the cinematography but the story itself. Ok I get it, they want to present a young man pursuing his vocation no matter what, but what about obedience? What about changing his way of talking after he entered the seminary? If it actually happened like that in real life then I guess I'm not surprised why people don't trust the Church. You don't give a chance for entering the seminary to a unqualified man just because he argued about it with his superior. You don't give a disabled person ordination out of fake charity. You don't talk with a woman in private when you're a priest especially that was a woman you had relation with. What this "priest" was doing in the story was completely revolutionary to the basic Catholic religious virtues.

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Re: Anyone else watched Fr Stu? Honest Review
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2022, 10:30:15 AM »
I would like to see it if only for the encouragement to sanctify suffering and see it as a gift.  I've heard it does a good job on that point.  Plus understanding suffering is what is sorely missing in the NO.  Do you think they portrayed that well?

There are many negatives though, such as you have pointed out and the fact that Mel and baby mommy girlfriend are promoting it which is a scandal to the Catholic faith.


Re: Anyone else watched Fr Stu? Honest Review
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2022, 10:44:20 AM »
Sounds like he fits right in with the NO priesthood to me :cowboy:

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Re: Anyone else watched Fr Stu? Honest Review
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2022, 11:46:04 AM »
I would like to see it if only for the encouragement to sanctify suffering and see it as a gift.  I've heard it does a good job on that point.  Plus understanding suffering is what is sorely missing in the NO.  Do you think they portrayed that well?

There are many negatives though, such as you have pointed out and the fact that Mel and baby mommy girlfriend are promoting it which is a scandal to the Catholic faith.
I guess the suffering part is pretty realistic, but for such internal spiritual fight it's not going to be shown very well on the screen anyway. At least when I watched it I saw him yelling at Our Lord angrily, and then all in sudden he's ok and started to preach to other people his understanding about his suffering. 



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Re: Anyone else watched Fr Stu? Honest Review
« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2022, 11:57:17 AM »
You don't talk with a woman in private when you're a priest[...]
Please, could someone explain this? It strikes me as totally foreign, like it does not occur to me what Catholic teaching forbids this, and such a seemingly absurd rule would never occur to me in a hundred years! Is this an American cultural thing? I'm Hispanic. As far as I know, the universal Church has never forbidden this. I would appreciate some sources on this, please.