Hollywood Dying - Church is Anti-Family? - Befriending Evil

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Date – Wednesday, December 28, 2022 – Feast of the Holy Innocents

INTRO – Is Hollywood dying? Will we see the rise of Catholic film making? Angelo Libutti weighs in.
And – Today’s Churches Increasingly Anti-Family - Auguste Meyrat joins us.
Also – David L Gray – The errors of befriending evil... 300 years of changing attitudes in the Church.

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What’s Concerning Us? – Angelo Libutti – Hollywood Dyeing off? Catholic film making rising?
Hollywood Lost More Than $500 Billion in Market Value in 2022
eft-wing studios the Walt Disney Co., Netflix, and Comcast accounting for the bulk of the bloodshed.
Disney — once an invincible brand and iconic American company– saw its stock plummet more than 40 percent this year as the company faces weak profitability for the foreseeable future, prompting the firing of CEO Bob Chapek and the return of old CEO Bob Iger.
Netflix experienced an unprecedented two consecutive quarters of subscriber losses this year, which resulted in layoffs and cost-cutting across the board. For the year, the stock is down more than 50 percent.

Neil – Catholic Movies?
“I won’t mention the Lord’s name in vain, and then I won’t kiss another woman,” the 53-year-old told Fox News. “Sex scenes aren’t in it for me. And I think, gosh, there’s enough sex scenes out there and me being in my fifties I’m not sure if anyone wants to see me doing that stuff anyway, but it’s a comfort level.”
“Now I have that opportunity because Ruvé and I are doing it ourselves, and are so blessed to have companies that support us and back us and want to make more films and TV shows, or reality shows or any kind of show that gives glory to Him,” McDonough declared. “Not just to make a movie, but to do a movie that actually gives Him glory — that’s our goal,” he added. “And that’s what we’re after, and we’re very fortunate to be able to do it.”

Guest Seg. - Auguste Meyrat - Crisis Magazine - Today’s Churches Increasingly Anti-Family
- “If it ain’t crying, it’s dying.”
- most of the people leading churches have done their best to make church a place for the elderly and unattached, not the young. As such, the aesthetic, culture, messaging, and even behavior of the individual worshippers at most churches have now become explicitly anti-family and anti-youth.
- Inevitably, this banality makes its way into the pastor’s sermons and the community’s general values, which are geared ever more toward the tastes of older people and non-parents. Sermons in most churches tend to focus on the themes of forgiveness, inner peace, and staying positive—all of which might be on the mind of the lonely spinster who worries about Covid or the DINKWAD (dual income,

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