Gibson Asked to Stage Christ's Crucifixion

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SYDNEY, Australia - Actor-director Mel Gibson has been asked to recreate the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the streets of Sydney if the city is selected to host a major Catholic gathering in 2008, a newspaper reported.
Gibson’s staging of the Stations of the Cross, a live interpretation of Christ’s final hours, would be part of a bid by the city to secure the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day in 2008, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Saturday.

The crucifixion reenactment — similar to scenes from Gibson’s hugely successful film “The Passion of the Christ” — would begin with the Last Supper staged at Sydney’s landmark Opera House at sunset, and would end with the crucifixion of Christ at St. Mary’s Cathedral, according to bid documents the newspaper said it obtained.

The Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, said intermediaries had approached Gibson about staging the event. Gibson’s involvement with World Youth Day was on the city’s “wish list,” Pell said.

“He might well be attracted. I think his devotion to Christ is very real,” he said.

The venue for the 2008 gathering, expected to attract an estimated 400,000 young Catholics from 160 countries, will be announced by the Pope on Aug. 21.
 
Well first Sydney has to win the rights to host the event. If that doesn’t happen all bets are off.
Does Cardinal Pell know something the other bishops don’t know about Mel?
Anyways great idea hope Mel considers it if Sydney gets the games.
 
The problem with holding World Youth Day in Sydey is that it is extremely expensive to travel to Australia from most parts of the world. WYD is for young people who are most frequently traveling on a budget.

I’m hoping to take my daughter to the 2008 WYD and while I’d love to go to Australia, I don’t see that it’s likely to be in the budget.

If they do get it, and Mel were to do such a program, I bet it would be spectacular.

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Yeah but not one world youth day has been held there it would give Catholics from Austrailia, New Zealand, Oceania and Asia finally a chance to attend of these things. Europe and North America have had monopolized these things its time to move it to another part of the world. Its not like you didn’t have a chance if you came from North America and Europe and just think how expensive its been for any Australian, New Zealander or Oceanic or East Asian to attend any of the world youth days they haven’t had one world youth day in their part of the world ever.
And now that they might have one your crying that its to far for you. Let’s share the wealth here a little. Hey they do it for the Olyympics we could learn a thing or two from the system.
 
Australia is one of my favourite countries, although I won´t be able to go, I would like, and with this news, is more interesting.
 
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