Last movie you saw?

[Optatus]

Bone Tomahawk. Pretty gruesome at times but I love westerns and horror so this was right up my alley.

[red solo cup]

10 Cloverfield Lane. The last 15 minutes was NOT what I expected.

[YeOldeFustilarians]

Au Hasard Balthazar

Thoroughly heartbreaking in a very desperate way.

[martin88nyc]

Hoovey (2015)

[Jerome]

The following examples below is a good demonstration of why the majority of people who obstinately watch the media (as demonstrated in this thread) are in mortal sin (even if they don't think they are) since they refuse to avoid the occasion of sinning. (And I only went through one page of this horrific thread).

Consider that I only make mention of the explicit sexual content, without taking into consideration all other evil things, such as occultism, ungodliness, profanity, blasphemy and immodest dress (which is not considered in "Sex and Nudity" category, unless the likes of bikini.

To you who read this: I tell you frankly, you will go to Hell if you don't stop watching media and putting yourself in the occasion of sinning, since the Church teaches that those who do this cannot be absolved and hence cannot be saved:

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #61, March 4, 1679: "He can sometimes be absolved, who remains in a proximate occasion of sinning, which he can and does not wish to omit, but rather directly and professedly seeks or enters into." – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.

Get this through your obstinate head. Perhaps if I tell it more forcefully, it will get through to some...

Going to see "Snowden" tonight. Bill Still said it was riveting.

Can't recommend snowden. Pornographic scene.

Last night on TCM I watched Reds with Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton.  Over three hours, but it didn't feel like it dragged except in just a few spots.  Beatty and Keaton are excellent in their roles and the witnesses are very interesting.  Not the first time I've seen the movie, but it was the first time I've seen it all the way through.

Sex & Nudity [Reds]
Some sexual dialogue, occasionally profane, tasteful nude photographs, characters in open relationships

10 Cloverfield Lane. The last 15 minutes was NOT what I expected.

Sex & Nudity [10 Cloverfield Lane]
A woman is shown lying on a bed in her underwear for a few minutes, before she dresses. Nothing sexual.

A woman wears a tight white tank top with a black bra beneath it and shows some cleavage.

We see a photo of a woman in a bikini in a magazine.

That one must avoid the proximate occasion of sin in order to be Saved and receive Forgiveness of one's sins from God is a certain fact of the Natural and Divine law that has always been taught by the Church and Her Saints. For instance, Blessed Pope Innocent XI during his papacy, condemned three propositions that denied this truth:

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #61, March 4, 1679: "He can sometimes be absolved, who remains in a proximate occasion of sinning, which he can and does not wish to omit, but rather directly and professedly seeks or enters into." – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #62, March 4, 1679: "The proximate occasion for sinning is not to be shunned when some useful and honorable cause for not shunning it occurs." – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.

Pope Innocent XI, Various Errors on Moral Matters #63, March 4, 1679: "It is permitted to seek directly the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor." – Condemned statement by Pope Innocent XI.

Here we see that the Church confirms that the opinion that "It is permitted to seek directly the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor" is directly condemned. And this condemnation is about those who "seek directly the proximate occasion for sinning" for a good cause, rather than for a selfish cause. But most people in this world do not even watch or listen to evil and ungodly media for a good cause but rather for the sake of pleasure or for other unnecessary reasons, and it is certainly not necessary "for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor." This shows us that the Church and the Natural Law absolutely abhors and condemns the opinion that one can watch or listen to media that can tempt a person to sin. Indeed, not only the occasions of sin, like evil, worldly and ungodly media, but also the "the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor" must be totally rejected and shunned if one wants to attain salvation.

People who reject this advice and continue to put themselves in a proximate or near occasion of sin will undoubtedly lose their souls, since God will allow the devil to fool them in some way since they rejected the Word of God, and chose to put themselves in the way of temptation. Many there are, indeed, who presumptuously claim that they won't get tempted by watching or listening to worldly media, or that they will be able to control it, but here we see in the condemnations of Blessed Pope Innocent XI that one may not even put oneself in "the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor". God will undoubtedly leave a person who is presumptuous and prideful, and the Church and Her Saints have always condemned such individuals that trusts in their own strength.

As a matter of fact, one can even understand from the light of natural reason that one is not allowed to put oneself in the occasion of sin, so those who do this act will have no excuse whatsoever on the day of judgment. In addition, a person who watches bad, worldly or ungodly media, tempts his fellow man to watch these evil things also, and thus, by his bad example, puts both himself and others in the way of damnation by his selfishness and presumption. So in addition to damning himself if he obstinately continues in such a course of life, such a person also actually tries to damn others by his bad example, trying to drag others with him into the eternal darkness and fire of hell. This is a kind of evil that is breathtaking to behold! It is thus a fact "that when men avoid the occasions of sin, God preserves them; but when they expose themselves to danger, they are justly abandoned by the Lord, and easily fall into some grievous transgressions." (St. Alphonsus Liguori, The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Mortification of the Eyes, p. 221)

The pitiful and unreasonable addiction to media by so many "Catholics" or "Christians" today is something new, and almost no one before the 20th century was so miserably addicted to it as the weak and bad willed population of our own times! The amount of pitiful and pathetic excuses that we have had to hear from bad willed people who try to excuse their act of putting themselves in the proximate or near occasion of sin is, simply said, almost endless. Even though they understand that they are not allowed to endanger their souls, they just couldn't care since they are hooked on the media, just like a drug addict, who need his daily "fix" to endure the day. For about a hundred years ago, almost no media existed as compared to today, and people thrived and the crime rates was as nothing when compared to today. So the unreasonable addiction to media cannot be excused, for man does not need media at all to survive, and putting oneself in the near or "the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor" is directly condemned by the Church.

If the priests as well as the laypeople that lived in a more virtuous time when the Catholic Church's Law was followed by people in Europe would have seen any of the things we human today see through either media or even walking outside and seeing billboards or lasciviously clothed men or women walking in the street, they would have been outraged and would have fled from every such thing, for their conscience had not been perverted through the media so that their sense of modesty was totally crushed as is the case with us modern humans. God's standard of modesty never changes, and the Church's teaching that "the proximate occasion for sinning for a spiritual or temporal good of our own or of a neighbor" must always be avoided is not allowed to be flouted in the 21st century however much modern man thinks that God allows their novelties and abominations.

Read more: http://www.catholic-saints.net/spiritual/#How-to-control-your-eyes

[Prayerful]

Mine was Siege of Jadotville on Netflix recounting how the 155 men of A COY of the Irish Army serving with the UN in the Congo held out against the overwhelming attacks on Katangan mercenaries. You see a moment of a priest in green vestments offering Mass while the soldiers sing a hymn. There are one or two instances of bad or blasphemous language, little enough for a company of soldiers. It shows a heroic band of men with outdated weapons holding a barely defensible shed and service station.

[Jerome]

I made a separate thread on the same topic and with more info which have generated many responses. I advice everyone watching media to read it:

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0

[Carleendiane]

I made a separate thread on the same topic and with more info which have generated many responses. I advice everyone watching media to read it:

http://www.suscipedomine.com/forum/index.php?topic=15694.0

Thanks St. Jerome. Just thanks. I have seen the light.

[martin88nyc]

Any Louis de Funes fans here. He was a French actor who generously supported SSPX financially. His films were mostly slapstick comedy.

Sorry to repeat myself but is there anyone familiar with him?

[Dafrenchman]

I know Monsieur Louis De Funes. Funny french actor of my youth in Quebec....
He made many movies...

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[martin88nyc]

My favorite comedian. He was one of a kind. French comedies are best, IMO. Perhaps I have some french blood in me.

[Dafrenchman]

He died early eighties i think.

[martin88nyc]

He died early eighties i think.

Yes

[Chestertonian]

big hero six,  with my six year old it's one of his favorites

[red solo cup]

Emperor with Tommy Lee Jones. Not very good. Fortunately there were no images of women in their underwear.