When Disney was Catholic...
Just recently, when I was strolling through a website detailing about the foreign dubs of Disney films, I happened by chance to fall upon this:
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According to the source, the first Italian dub of the 1950 Cinderella Disney film was shown in the Piedmont Hotel in Turin, and that the screening was to help orphans at a Catholic orphanage run by the Faumlato Cristiano Institute which was facing economic repercussions following a robbery.
So what was the Famulato Cristiano Institute?
According to the website of the Institute, In 1921, with the collaboration of people dedicated to the apostolate, Father Barberis started the "Famulato Cristiano" to form in a Christian way and to qualify professionally the young women who carried out their work in families. He gathered them in an association, to protect their rights, opening, in successive stages, a stable headquarters as a support center, defense and security in every eventuality. He
pointed out to the domestic workers the ideal of the Christian apostolate in the family environment and proposed that "cult of service" that characterized his whole life and is the charism of the Congregation inspired by the service rendered by Jesus with the washing of the feet of the Apostles and the preparation of food on the lake of Genezaret, and in particular to the mystery of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth: an example of simple and selfless service, but above all a bearer of Jesus, the Savior.
The Sisters of the Christian Family, continuing and updating the ideal line of its foundation, continue to give a complex response to the problems of the family: from the human and Christian formation of the couple, to the formation of a responsible fatherhood, to the education of children, up to taking care of the living conditions of the elderly.
Monsignor Barberis was not able to see the beginning of the missionary activity, desired by him since his preparation for his priesthood, which was then implemented in Colombia by his Sisters from 1971.
In fact, he died in Turin on 24 September 1967, a few months after having celebrated 60 years of Mass and a few days after the inauguration of the church dedicated "to Jesus", at the General House of the Sisters, a church desired, designed and supervised by him in its construction and in which his body now, after much toil and suffering, rests in his Lord.
Father Barberis was 66 years old when Cinderella came out, and it premiered in a hotel in Turin to fund his group. The pope when Cinderella was released was Pope Pius XII, or Eugenio Pacelli. The last Disney film under a true pope was Lady and the Tramp (1955).
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He was declared ''Venerable'' by the Vatican II sect on April 3, 2014 by Antipope Francis
Conclusion: As someone who likes both Disney and History and being a traditional Catholic, I appreciate how the Disney of old premiered a film just to fund a Catholic orphanage, and now, the Disney of today funds immorality like LGBT and abortion. I still watch Disney films and I even draw Disney characters like Dopey the Dwarf. The first two Disney films I watched was Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Snow White (1937) which I watched when I was 4 in May 2010.
Eternal Rest grant unto Adriana Casselotti (Voice of Snow White) and Pinto Colvig (Voice of Grumpy, Sleepy and Goofy) O Lord, and let the perpetual light shine upon them. May they Rest in peace, Amen.
