Matt Villella

I have been to Mother Cabrini's tomb, have read her biography, and have asked for her prayers on a number of occasions. So I will say that I know Frances Cabrini as a friend in Christ Jesus, and this movie does not depict that woman who I know. The Pelagian take of this movie is that Cabrini was a strong woman who made things happen by the strength of her own will. It does not depict her deep prayer life and her conviction that her work was what God was asking her to do. Jesus Christ was vital to and at the center of her work. Not only that, but the rare time a cross was depicted in a scene, it was without a corpus, which is most definitely a biographical inaccuracy, and the one scene in a church is a depiction of a bishop issuing an unjust order, which is a borderline profanation. Perhaps the filmmakers are trying to appeal to non-Catholic audiences by leaving out crucifixes, Mass, confession. But these were fundamental and integral things in the life of Mother Cabrini. This film therefore does her the great injustice of of denying her saintliness through her heroic virtue of faith in God's holy will and trust in His Holy Church and it's sacraments.