Several young people from Regnum Christi and students from the Francisco de Vitoria University already enjoyed this course when Father Rafael taught it in person years ago. Now it can be viewed on his own channel of YouTube: “I enjoyed doing it and thought it was something valuable that I could share. So I decided to record it.”

How did the idea of making this course inspired by The Lion King and not another come about?

The idea first came to me when I watched some lectures by Jordan Peterson analyzing this movie through Jungian psychology. I found it very interesting, but I also thought it was somewhat limited; that faith allowed me to discover a theological layer of meanings and parallels that he was missing.

Moreover, I discovered that this kind of interpretation could help illuminate an aspect of Christianity that initially seems difficult for the modern man to digest: the fact that God is king. The banner of Western culture, for several centuries now, has been that of absolute freedom, and therefore Christian concepts of authority, obedience, and commandments are considered taboo today. I thought that this story could shed light on its true meaning and offer a panoramic view of the Christian vision of man, in which the kingship of God can be revealed as attractive and desirable. Because the main problem of atheism and unbelief is not that it doesn’t seem true that God exists, but that it doesn’t seem good (since it would seem that God is an enemy of my freedom).

Read the full interview published by the Communications Office of the Territory of Spain.