Elizabeth movie is another anti-Catholic conspiracy
A Catholic historian has accused the film Elizabeth: The Golden Age of being a “concerted attack on Catholicism” concocted by an unlikely alliance between atheists and apocalyptic Christians.
Professor Franco Cardini believes the film, which stars Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I, is part of a plot to “secularise and de-Christianise Europe”.
Apparently, Elizabeth is portrayed as “an able politician and courageous sovreign”, while King Philip II of Spain is a “ferocious, fanatical Catholic, swinging his rosary like a weapon and roaming the Escorial Palace like a madman, full of impotent fury,dreaming of subjugating the world to the Catholic faith”. What is more, the defeat of the Spanish Armada is presented as a “shining victory for free thought against the forces of darkness in the form of the Inquisition”.
The National Catholic Register (subscription needed) added to the collective whinge in its review, in which it claimed the film was more damaging to the Catholic church than the Da Vinci Code:
The climax, a weakly staged destruction of the Spanish Armada, is a crescendo of Church-bashing imagery: rosaries floating amid burning flotsam, inverted crucifixes sinking to the bottom of the ocean, the rows of ominous berobed clerics slinking away in defeat.
Sounds like a must-see. Thanks for the heads-up, angry Catholics!
[…] cares about hios particular set of superstitions. And he’s got the paranoia to prove it (via): Writing in Avvenire, the official organ of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, Franco Cardini said […]
I rather saw the Impending Armada as the EU and the Catholics in her Midst as the Muslims.