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.