The Pope’s not a Catholic! He’s an imposter seeking to destroy the church! So says Mel Gibson’s dad, one of the world’s preeminent retro-Catholics. He’s a Vatican II hater, and thinks performing mass in anything other than Latin is an abomination and a sign of the apocalypse.
Keep Papa Gibson’s background in mind if you go see Mel’s new Christ-on-the-cross movie The Passion — filmed entirely in Latin and Aramaic and without subtitles.
TNR's Paula Fredriksen recently had a good article on Gibson's film in a recent issue. (Need a subscription for the full text.) Sounds like 1) Gibson's Dad really is a nut--a Holocaust denier as well as an Opus Deist reactionary, 2) there are some weird anti-Semitic politics floating around the whole enterprise, and 3) they're probably going to add subtitles after all.
you can find a samizdat copy of the article here.
I agree with Papa! The Catholic Church is just so liberal now!
Liberal, I don't think soooooo. They just came out, again, against abortion, same sex marriages and euthanasia. I am surprised that they didn't include women in the church with them. Too bad they said nothing about priests who abuse children. bah!
Opps...should have used my <sarcasm> . . . </sarcasm> brackets!
Well, guys, there's different sorts of catholics, like all protestants are not puritans or mormons...
And not all the catholics are Pope-o-philes (at least in Europe or South America), although that may not seem obvious from the outside.
ugh. I watched a full-screen preview of it the other day and almost lost my lunch. The gore is over the top and I find it hard to believe he could keep going after losing so much blood.
I am waiting for someone to make a movie of this book.
Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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