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According to her (Mother Julie's) opinion, the Mistresses should not allow the pupils to read novels, or other works of pure fiction, which are much more likely to harm than to be instructive, for young people. "It is like trying to gather figs from thistles", said Mère Julie. "When the fruit-laden tree is near at the hand ... the only thing that the children derive from it, as a rule, is an inordinate taste for this kind of story, and a great disgust for anything sensible or the least bit serious."

This quotation is taken from the book 'The Educational Ideas of Blessed Julie Billiart', Foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame of Namur, written by a member of her Congregation. Dated 1922, Longmans Green and Co. Translated from the French. The original title of this little book, 'Les Idées Pédagogiques de La Bienheureuse Mère Julie Billiart' is one of a series of studies of founders and foundresses of religious orders devoted to teaching, edited by M. Halcant and published by P. Lethielleux, Libraire-Editeur, 10 Rue Cassette, Paris.

The words of Blessed Julie Billiart apply to fantasy films so popular today. There is yet another one soon to be released.

Some argue that in these cinematic fantasies one can see Christian symbolism. It is far better to nourish the mind with the reality of the doctrines of our God-given Faith rather than to distort His creation with the fabrications of man (often akin to Gnosticism.).

Some argue that visual fantasy is but innocent entertainment. It is far better to entertain oneself and one's children with the edifying stories of the heroes of our Faith- the saints - who lived and died and set an example in the practical order of how we must live in order to gain to the glory of heaven rather than to fill one's mind or a child's mind with 'heroes' who do not exist at all.

One should note that the Hollywood establishment has never been a friend to traditional Roman Catholicism, and that anything which they attempt to market under the guise of Christian fare must be deeply suspect. Hollywood, like all liberal elite institutions, wants a secularized, modernist audience. Films like Narnia, with their thin veneer of religious ideas, are genuine attempts to wean children from real religion, for they deceive the child into thinking that emotion and sentimentality can take the place of the sense of the sacred that only the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass can genuinely produce.

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