The film, he suggests, in portraying a natural, painful birth of Christ, thus denies the truth of the virginal and miraculous birth of Christ, which, he notes, the Fathers of the Church compared to light passing through glass without breaking it.
499 teaches “The deepening of faith in the virginal motherhood led the Church to confess Mary’s real and perpetual virginity even in the act of giving birth to the Son of God made man.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church at no. Geiger, in an video blog post, explains that the Catholic Church has taught for over 2000 years that the referenced Scripture showed that Mary would not only conceive the child miraculously, but would give birth to the child miraculously – keeping her physical virginity intact during the birth. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel.” Fr. In Isaiah 7:14 the Bible predicts the coming of the Messiah saying: “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign. Geigeradmits that he found the film is “in general, to be a pious and reverential presentation of the Christmas mystery.” He adds however, that “not only does the movie get the Virgin Birth wrong, it thoroughly Protestantizes its portrayal of Our Lady.” Angelo Mary Geiger of the Franciscans of the Immaculate in the United States, points out that the film, which opened December 1, misinterprets scripture from a Catholic perspective. NEW YORK, Decem() – A review of New Line Cinema’s The Nativity story by Fr.
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