The X-Men Franchise and Catholicism

I think its fairly well known about the Night-Crawler character being a Catholic, so I'm not going to reinvent the wheel.  But most people might not realize that there is another Character who, though not professing a particular belief, has implicit Catholic underpinnings to the character.

Charles Francis Xavier

So yeah, basically its simple.  College student with a great gift meets another with similar but distinctly unique gifts.  After meeting St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Francis went about seeking after souls to be brought to their highest ends in their salvation. Similarly, Charles Xavier makes it his duty to draw together all the mutants of the world to realize their potential for the good. Its really that simple, but escapes most modern minds.

Other Catholic X Men include Banshee and Gambit, just an fyi

Click HERE for a good post on Nightcrawler

Talking about the liturgy at Marquette

When I was at an early mass the other day I noticed this flyer on the confessional doors:

Some might be thinking, "But its a Jesuit speaking on the liturgy and it is about Vatican II."

I know, I know, I had a similar feeling initially just looking at it, but reading closer there seems to be some good things.

First, the decreed on the liturgy from the council is quite beautiful and only contains a few confusing things, but overall its a wonderful document!

Second the talk is being given by a member of the revising commitee that worked to bring the translation in line with the Latin 1970 missal.  He also defended the new translation among his critical peers.

Now I dont have any real plans of going, but it looks like a positive experience as compared to the one at my former parish as per Terrance.

+JMJ+