NCR’s Lament Over Gerwig’s Narnia Exposes Conciliar Church’s Capitulation to Secular Blasphemy
The National Catholic Register — flagship organ of the conciliar sect’s “conservative” wing — publishes a commentary by Ann Schneible bemoaning Greta Gerwig’s forthcoming adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew. The piece catalogues the director’s blasphemies: casting Meryl Streep as Aslan, the undisputed Christ-figure of Lewis’s cosmos; refashioning the creation of Narnia into a David Bowie-inspired “rock opera”; transposing the Edwardian setting to 1955. Schneible quotes “Msgr.” Eric Barr of the “Diocese of Rockford” declaring Gerwig has made “humongous mistakes” and twisted a “redemptive story” into parody. The thesis is clear: the conciliar establishment’s outrage is purely aesthetic, devoid of supernatural authority, and reveals the utter bankruptcy of a “Church” that has surrendered the Kingship of Christ to the world.
The Conciliar “Commentary” as Symptom of Apostasy
The article’s very framework betrays the novus ordo mentality. Schneible frames the controversy as a debate over “artistic liberty” versus “blasphemy,” weighing “honoring the author’s intent” against the filmmaker’s “right to cast whomever she chooses.” This is the language of laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Register does not invoke the Social Kingship of Christ; it invokes “fan dismay” and “creative liberties.” It treats the Incarnation as literary property rather than the ontological reality to which every knee must bow.
The “Christ Figure” of a Heretic’s Imagination
Schneible notes Lewis was “an atheist convert to Anglicanism.” She omits that Anglicanism is a schismatic sect, founded in rebellion against the Supreme Pontiff, retaining no valid priesthood, no sacrifice, no sacraments. Lewis’s Aslan is not the Verbum Incarnatum but a Protestant construct — a lion who dies by “Deep Magic” rather than offering the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. To defend this literary idol against a feminist reimagining is to defend a counterfeit. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18). The Register, by treating Lewis’s Narnia as a Christian treasure worth preserving, implicitly endorses this condemned indifferentism.
Gender-Blasphemy and the Denial of Created Order
Gerwig’s casting of a woman as Aslan is not merely a “creative choice”; it is a direct assault on the masculine imagery God Himself chose. Lewis himself, cited in the article, wrote: “To say the ‘masculine imagery’ that God uses to describe himself is ‘arbitrary and unessential’ is an argument not in favour of Christian priestesses but against Christianity.” The Register quotes this but fails to draw the dogmatic conclusion: the Sacerdos acts in persona Christi, and Christ is male because the Bridegroom cannot be a bride. This is not “complementarity” — a conciliar buzzword — but ontological necessity. The “rock opera” framing, inspired by Bowie — a figure of androgyny, occultism, and sexual revolution — completes the satanic inversion: the Logos who spoke creation into being (Psalm 32:9) is replaced by the noise of the world.
The “Cleric” Quoted Holds No Authority
Schneible cites “Msgr. Eric Barr of the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois.” This man is a functionary of the conciliar sect, ordained in the invalid Paul VI rite (1968), under a “bishop” consecrated in the same rite. He possesses no jurisdiction, no sacramental character, no mission from Christ. His Facebook lament is the bleating of a hireling. The Register presents him as a legitimate shepherd, thereby perpetuating the fraud that the post-conciliar hierarchy is the Catholic Church. Canon 188.4 (1917 Code): “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “Diocese of Rockford” is a juridical fiction of the usurping structure; its “clergy” are ministers of the abomination of desolation.
Silence on the Supernatural Order
Nowhere does the article mention the Most Holy Sacrifice, the State of Grace, the Final Judgment, or the duty of the faithful to avoid occasions of sin — including blasphemous entertainment. The “Catholic” commentator reduces the crisis to a “missed opportunity” and a “shame.” This is naturalism pure and simple, condemned by the Syllabus: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40) — the world thinks so; the conciliar apologist agrees in practice by seeking the world’s approval. Pius XI taught: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom, either by combating the triple concupiscence of the world through religious vows…” (Quas Primas). The Register combats nothing; it dialogues.
The Conciliar “Conservative” as Guardian of the Revolution
Schneible’s piece performs the classic function of controlled opposition: it channels righteous anger into harmless literary criticism, preserving the illusion that the “Church” still cares about orthodoxy while the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican celebrates the “canonization” of heretics, worships Pachamama, and blesses sodomy. The article’s closing keywords — “c.s. lewis, chronicles of narnia, movies, film, greta gerwig” — reveal its true nature: clickbait for a demographic the conciliar sect fears losing. Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist error: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Prop. 6). The Register listens to its subscribers’ outrage and reflects it back, never judging by the Authentic Magisterium.
Conclusion: No King But Caesar
The article ends with a whimper: “What a shame and what a missed opportunity.” No call to boycott, no declaration that Catholics may not attend, no reminder that Lex orandi, lex credendi — the law of prayer is the law of belief — and that to pay for a ticket is to fund blasphemy. The conciliar “Church” has no king but Caesar (the box office, the culture, the “dialogue”). Quas Primas declared: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law and respect for power, the same can be applied to the present times: ‘When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.'” The Register’s lament is the sound of those foundations crumbling — and its writers, like the “Msgr.” it quotes, are the demolition crew.
Source:
Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ Film Sparks Backlash Ahead of Release (ncregister.com)
Date: 08.10.2026