Stallone back in church, back in theaters as Rocky

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Stallone back in church, back in theaters as Rocky

Dec 25, 2006 11:00 AM
WASHINGTON (CNS). Sylvester Stallone grew up Catholic, stopped going to church after he tasted fame and fortune, but now considers himself a churchgoing Catholic again. Stallone’s shift back to church started when his daughter Sophia was “born sick,” Stallone told Catholic News Service in a Dec. 7 telephone interview from Dallas to promote his new movie, “Rocky Balboa.”
In November 1996, at age 2 months, Sophia underwent open-heart surgery at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center.
The operation went well, and Sophia, now 10, is doing “great,” Stallone said. “She’s the No. 1 athlete in her class.”

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Interesting.

Make sure you read the end of the article about Rambo IV. Even MORE interesting.
 
buffalo said:
WASHINGTON (CNS). Sylvester Stallone grew up Catholic, stopped going to church after he tasted fame and fortune, but now considers himself a churchgoing Catholic again.
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Glad to hear that he’s attending church again, but as he’s been married three times, I wonder what his marital status is vis-a-vis the Church. Can’t receive Communion if this hasn’t been worked out canonically, and if he’s cohabiting with a woman other than his first wife, he’s still in a state of sin.
 
Well, in absence of evidence to the contrary, I will charitably assume he is following Church teaching and the guidance of his priest. My step-father is Catholic, and he has been drawn back to the Church. He does not receive.

Rejoice and be glad.
Richardols said:
Glad to hear that he’s attending church again, but as he’s been married three times, I wonder what his marital status is vis-a-vis the Church. Can’t receive Communion if this hasn’t been worked out canonically, and if he’s cohabiting with a woman other than his first wife, he’s still in a state of sin.
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Richardols said:
Glad to hear that he’s attending church again, but as he’s been married three times, I wonder what his marital status is vis-a-vis the Church. Can’t receive Communion if this hasn’t been worked out canonically, and if he’s cohabiting with a woman other than his first wife, he’s still in a state of sin.
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I don’t wonder about it at all. He has a priest, that is a concern for discussion between him and his priest, none of my business whatever.
 
asquared said:
I don’t wonder about it at all. He has a priest, that is a concern for discussion between him and his priest, none of my business whatever.
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Oh, I don’t know that such is no one else’s business. Remember the actress Helen Hayes? She had a priest, a good friend of hers who advised her that it was all right for her to marry a divorced man. Surely, the scandal she gave wasn’t merely a private matter between her and her confessor.
 
Richardols said:
Oh, I don’t know that such is no one else’s business. Remember the actress Helen Hayes? She had a priest, a good friend of hers who advised her that it was all right for her to marry a divorced man. Surely, the scandal she gave wasn’t merely a private matter between her and her confessor.
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Did you read this in her autobiography or some other reliable source?

And why are you assuming Stallone’s marriage hasn’t been regularized in the Church? Do you have documentation to say he hasn’t?
 
Della said:
Did you read this in her autobiography or some other reliable source?
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Yes. It was a matter of some scandal after she married Charles MacArthur, the well-known playwright and screenwriter in 1928. He had been married previously, and was a Baptist. It was her first marriage.
 
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Richardols:
Yes. It was a matter of some scandal after she married Charles MacArthur, the well-known playwright and screenwriter in 1928. He had been married previously, and was a Baptist. It was her first marriage.
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I can understand how such a marriage would have caused a scandal in 1928. Was their marriage ever regularized? And didn’t she leave the Church for many years and return later or am I wrong about that?

And how about Stallone? Do you know his marital status with regard to the Church?

Not that irregular marriages ought to be glossed over, still Stallone returning to the Church is a good thing for him and his family. If any of us think he isn’t living as he should be as a Catholic it is our duty to pray for him, but unless and until I know he is living in sin, I won’t assume he is any more than I’d assume it of you or anyone else I don’t know or about whom I don’t have the facts in hand.
 
Well personally I think it’s awesome and I say good for him and his family. I really wish the absolute best for him. 👍
 
Della said:
I can understand how such a marriage would have caused a scandal in 1928. Was their marriage ever regularized?
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No. She accepted the advice of that priest who told her that her marriage was acceptable.
And didn’t she leave the Church for many years and return later or am I wrong about that?
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She may have after MacArthur died.
 
This topic is about Sylvestor Stallone peoples, and good for him! Seeing as it is not my buisness, I wont speculate over the state of his marriage, what matters is that he has come home…
 
Not to derail the discussion going on here, but have any of you seen the new Rocky movie? I haven’t been that impressed by what I’ve seen, and am debating wheter it’s really worth the ten dollars for a ticket.

Christos Anesti-

Radulfus
 
Richardols said:
Glad to hear that he’s attending church again, but as he’s been married three times, I wonder what his marital status is vis-a-vis the Church. Can’t receive Communion if this hasn’t been worked out canonically, and if he’s cohabiting with a woman other than his first wife, he’s still in a state of sin.
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We could give him the benefit of the doubt that he wasn’t married in the Church?

Or, is my knowledge of marriage and the Church not-so-great?
 
Is it really necessary that Stallone’s marital status and spiritual state be discussed? It was mentioned somewhere ealier in this thread that that is between him, his confessor, and God. All this discussion over it can be perceived as a form gossip, or at the least unbenificial. If he is in state of sin, then it is he who must get out of it, and that merits our prayers, not our debating on whether he is or isn’t in state of sin. If he’s not in state of sin and we continue to discuss this, then we are potentially spreading a false view of him, and that can be considered slander, which in itself is a potentially grievous sin (I’m not saying this dicussion is a grievous sin, I’m just making the observation that such discussions as this can go that direction) To make things short, I think the discussion on the state of his soul, marriage, or relationship with the Church, should cease, and our prayers for him in general increase. I hope I have not offended anyone with this post.

Christos Anesti-

Radulfus
 
This is great news. Maybe he’ll bring a few spiritually lost celebrities with him…
 
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