New film about Catholic faith brings together Cardinal Müller, Bishop Strickland, Bishop Schneider
It is clear from the beginning of the documentary that all of the faithful prelates interviewed are waging a war against heresy and misunderstanding of what the Catholic Church is.
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Strickland and director Krystian Kratiuk in "Credo"Screenshot/Polonia
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(LifeSiteNews) – In a new documentary, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Bishop Joseph Strickland, and Bishop Athanasius Schneider all present reflections on the four defining marks of the Church: one, holy, apostolic, and Catholic.
Credo is a 75-minute film directed by Polish journalist Krystian Kratiuk featuring interviews with Müller, Strickland, Schneider, and a Cistercian monk (and beekeeper) named Jan Paweł Strumiłowski. The documentary, filmed in locations as far apart as central Poland and Astana, Kazakhstan, appeared on YouTube in December in two versions: English and Polish. (In the English version, Müller’s German and Strumiłowski’s Polish are translated with a voiceover; in the Polish version, footnotes are provided for the German- and English-speaking prelates.)
Both versions are available in their entirety.
The film features beautiful footage — the sight of Bishop Schneider traveling through his diocese of Astana is particularly moving — and traditional sacred music to support the orthodox presentations by the faithful prelates and monk. Nevertheless, the film never descends into sentimentality; it is clear from the beginning that all the men interviewed are waging a war against heresy and misunderstanding of what the Catholic Church is.
Bishop Strickland is particularly forthright and clearly not afraid to ruffle episcopal feathers in his defense of the authentic Catholic faith.
“… (W)e’re in a time when too many of the present-day successors of the Apostles are saying, ‘Oh, we can abandon what the Apostles said, and we’ve got it figured out, and we’re going to take a different path. And what was sin is no longer sin; what was true is no longer true.’ That’s not apostolic,” he says firmly.
“To be apostolic … is to be rooted in the tradition and history of the Apostles, and as Pope Benedict XVI said beautifully, we need a continuity of faith and not a rupture,” he continues.
“I think we’re seeing a lot of that rupture, that is, breaking away and saying, ‘We’re going to leave behind what the Apostles taught, and the tradition that has carried us through these 20 centuries. In the 21st century, we’re going to leave that behind. We found a new way. We understand it better than they did of old.’ That is an arrogance that is really harmful, and it’s not what the Church is about. We have to humbly look back to the Apostles. I like to say we need to be first century Christians in the 21st century. And that is being apostolic Christians.”
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