In general, I don’t want to know anything about the personal lives or thoughts of actors or other celebrities. If I go to a movie, I don’t want to know that the person on the screen is really a moronic mouth-breather who thinks that guns should be banned even as his character hides from incoming rifle rounds behind a particle board cupboard and shooting everyone one in sight. I recall the title of a book by…. not sure who… after Barbara Streisand uttered some idiotic political chatter: “Shut up and sing!”
To my point. I’ve been deluged with notes about the conversion to the Catholic Church by an actor whom I don’t really know anything about. His name is apparently pronounced “Shai-ah”, Shia LaBeouf. While working on a movie about St. Pio of Pietrelcina, he got interested in the Catholic Faith and in the Vetus Ordo and – bammo – he did something that Francis would probably have told him not to do, he became a Catholic. And, worse, he prefers the Vetus Ordo. Oooops!
Enter from the Olympian Middle, Bp. Robert Baron, newly the residential Bishop of Winona-Rochester, media personality, host of – pace Alfred Hitchcock – Bishop Barron Presents. What is more natural than that His Excellency should interview the newly converted actor?
Often in interviews with actors you are left with a certain dissatisfaction. “Where’s the beef?”, as it were. I think at one point, the Bishop got a little more LaBeouf than he was ready for.
Here is a snip from the longer interview. Frankly, LaBoeuf is wrong in his thinking about the Traditional Latin Mass about the priest “activating” the congregation. He’s new at this, after all. But he is onto something.
“Latin Mass affects me deeply.
“How come?”, Barron asked very quickly, with perhaps a touch of alarm?
“Because it feels like they’re not selling me a car.”
Of course Barron goes to the zoo with a cliché about people being passive spectators at the older form of Mass. But then he gets the idea of the “sacred” just right. Again… he is the spox of the Olympian Middle. Ironically, in the longer video, he talks about how it is Catholic not to “throw anything away”. Actually, it is a pretty good conversation.
"The Latin Mass affects me deeply. Deeply."#ShiaLaBeouf's conversion is yet another testament to the evangelical power of the Traditional Latin Mass. Welcome home, Shia (@thecampaignbook)! pic.twitter.com/U6PAqQvCEc
— Matt Gaspers (@MattGaspers) August 25, 2022
As a convert myself, I am all for this young man and wish him all the very best.
UPDATE:
This, from Beans… he blocks me so this is a screen shot I picked up from someone.
In the interview, LaBoeuf did not speak about the Novus Ordo with contempt. He spoke honestly about his feelings about it, and positively about some Masses in the Novus Ordo. However, LaBoeuf put his finger on a problem. Beans is smart enough to get where this is going, so he resorts to a lie, to smear LaBoeuf.
