This Is The Way
You may have seen the recent statement from a Church spokesperson urging Scottish Catholics to “examine their financial priorities,” noting our financial contributions to the church versus other expenditures, stating “If someone spends more on Netflix subscriptions each month than they donate to their community, then a financial reality check is probably in order”. Personally, I am not a huge fan of Netflix but I do enjoy Disney+ because it contains all the Star Wars movies and every single Star Wars TV series episode. Plus, I’ve always felt Star Wars has something interesting to say about faith and religion. Don’t get me wrong, there’s absolutely nothing worse than all those endless lame attempts to make the Star Wars franchise about Catholicism, as a way to make the faith seem cool and appealing to the kids. You know the type of thing; ‘Oh the Jedi knights are just like Franciscans’ or ‘In a way The Force is just like the Holy Spirit’, and so on. Having said all that, I