Mel Gibson a Catholic?

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Do your Pacific Salmons speak Latin too?
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I’m not sure. When I get them, they are dead.
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Well, Latin is a ‘dead’ language, right?

(Sorry!😊 )

And I love Latin!

I’m pretty sure the reference was for a ‘sermon’, right?
 
Tantum_ergo said:
Well, Latin is a ‘dead’ language, right?

(Sorry!😊 )

And I love Latin!

I’m pretty sure the reference was for a ‘sermon’, right?
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I thought of that too, but I didn’t want to say it. 😛

The reference may have been for “Solemn”?
 
timjp77 said:
wow, I can’t believe you cited the SPLC for anything. The SPLC is so anti-Catholic it’s beyond comprehension. It’s members feel the Catholic church is a hate group. I wouldn’t believe anything coming from that group.
In my HO, if the SPLC doesn’t like Mel Gibson, then I think Mel must be doing something right.
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I cited a source what difference does it make. It doesn’t change the fact mel is not what he pretends to be. He built his own church and he does not follow rome. There are articles all over the internet if one bothers to look. Mel did the passion for the money plain and simple. Personally I have seen better movies about Christ.
 
GrammasRose said:
I cited a source what difference does it make. It doesn’t change the fact mel is not what he pretends to be. He built his own church and he does not follow rome. There are articles all over the internet if one bothers to look. Mel did the passion for the money plain and simple. Personally I have seen better movies about Christ.
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I disagree with your assessment of the movie, but how do you know he did it just for the money? The fact that Mel is not in line with Rome, does not mean he doesn’t have real faith in Christ. No one predicted that it would be as financially successful as it was…even Mel.
 
DL82 said:
I find some of the imagery, and the focus on the physicality of Christ’s sufferings in the Passion, gives the wrong impression of what Christ’s redemptive death and resurrection is all about. I found it hard to explain to my friend after the film that it is His obedience unto death, and not the number of times He is scourged, that purchased our salvation.
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I, and pretty much everyone I have discussed the film with, got exactly the opposite feeling from the graphic imagery of the scourging. It is a shocking reminder of just what our Lord endured for our sins and every time I see it it makes me ashamed that sometimes I fall so short of what little he asks of me. Also, if you see any of the recent examinations of the Shroud of Turin you find that the body on the Shroud has injuries that are very consistant with those depicted in the movie. His entire back and the back of both legs are absolutely covered with wounds and the front is not much better.
 
GrammasRose said:
Mel did the passion for the money plain and simple. Personally I have seen better movies about Christ.
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I completely disagree. In fact, you could not be more wrong. You have obviously never heard Mel speak of his faith in Christ and you forget that this movie was not a guaranteed success. HOLLYWOOD does movies just for the money and no one there would touch it. I have never seen any movie, about the Lord or anything else, that so increased my reverence and it had the same affect on pretty much everyone I have discussed it with. No other movie about the Lord has had this affect on so many people. In addition to that, in every aspect of filmaking this film is stellar: casting, cinematography, location, sets, acting, you name it. It is one of the true masterpieces in film history.
 
2shelbys said:
Are you kidding? Who will be your next source on proper Catholicism, Jack Chick?
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It’s not just the SPLC. While I can’t really blame Mel for not wanting to be a part of the LA Arch, separating from the LA Arch is a thing that Protestants and the Orthodox would do instead of working on reformation from within as true reformers do.
 
Semper_Fi said:
It’s not just the SPLC. While I can’t really blame Mel for not wanting to be a part of the LA Arch, separating from the LA Arch is a thing that Protestants and the Orthodox would do instead of working on reformation from within as true reformers do.
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I totally agree. If you are not in communion with Rome that says it all. I was commenting on the reliability of the source used in reference to his motvations for doing the movie.
 
If Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy and Dick Durban can claim to be Catholic and most U.S. bishops have no problem with it, I have no problem with Mel claiming to be Catholic.
 
Lance said:
If Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy and Dick Durban can claim to be Catholic and most U.S. bishops have no problem with it, I have no problem with Mel claiming to be Catholic.
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Ouch. Good point.
 
You know the old saying from St. Augustine that all non-Catholics want to be called Catholic, but if you ask them where the nearest Catholic Church is, they’ll not point you to their own chapel or meeting place? I wonder what Mel would say if you asked him. Would he just point you to his chapel, or would he have to make some sort of qualifying statements too?
 
childofmary1143 said:
I don’t know why the Pope did that but that PALES in comparision to what Mel has done. Mel is a hypocrite as he complains about the Pope and yet he appears in films with him engaging in sexual exploits. What part of Thou shalt not commit adultery doesn’t he understand?
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Um…I don’t know how to break this to ya, but movies aren’t real. It’s pretend.
 
🙂 Mel is probably a revert. I liked the Passion film but it speaks so much about Mary also and I had seen an interview of Mel and he said he was so gratefull for what the nuns did for him.

The whole movie probably took him down memory lane hope he has been back to confession the whole works. he is maybe being exploited by the traditionalists but he is probably in his own glory also.

He has made strange movies Braveheart etc. where this is too much adultery.

I also pray he stays reverted and I’m not sure we should critizize him too much the reverts come back and are like bulls in a china shop, I’ll bet he told them all to go to mass or not eat.😃

Dessert
 
childofmary1143 said:
Mel is in my HO a schismatic. I have witnessed him speaking on TV years back that he denies the validity of the Novus Ordo Mass. He has publicly criticized Pope John Paul 2 for being “too liberal”.
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Pope John Paul 2 received Mel as one of his flock prior to the release of “The Passion.” Were he a schismatic, and a celebrity figure worldwide, the personal encounter with His Holiness would never had taken place.

Mel Gibson is as Catholic as you or I, no doubt about it.
 
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