Monday, April 2, 2007

Restraint in portraying evil

From the Vatican II Decree on the Media of Social Communications, Inter Mirifica:

"the narration, description or portrayal of moral evil, even through the media of social communication, can indeed serve to bring about a deeper knowledge and study of humanity and, with the aid of appropriately heightened dramatic effects, can reveal and glorify the grand dimensions of truth and goodness. Nevertheless, such presentations ought always to be subject to moral restraint, lest they work to the harm rather than the benefit of souls, particularly when there is question of treating matters which deserve reverent handling or which, given the baneful effect of original sin in men, could quite readily arouse base desires in them."

This provides food for thought. It demands order and charity and restraint in the artistic handling of moral evil.

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