There’s also an interview Mel did on CNN with Larry King back in the early 90s where King asked him point-blank why he doesn’t attend regular (I believe was the term) Roman Catholic services. Mel responded, and I paraphrase, that the gist was that he doesn’t believe “Transubstantiation” occurs in RC masses. (Body and Blood communion) So I take it, it was his view, that most of us were not receiving the Sacrament in communion properly because of what the priest says during the preparation for the Eucharist.
There was also a funny quote of him saying that it was difficult for him to find a real priest for confession and mass when he was at the Vatican, of all places.
If someone knows more to this, I’ll stand corrected but I’m pretty sure my memory serves me correct on this.
As for his film on Christ’s Passion, I remember reading that he is a real devotee of the now Saint Catherine Emmerich’s “The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ”, a 19th Century German stigmatist nun who had mystical experiences of Christ’s passion all recorded by a poet by her side. Funnily enough, I remember reading the TAN publication of this book in the 90s way before I even knew about Mel’s religion. Remarkably, it’s a really powerful book which even “cold” believers have been moved by.
However, neither in the Gospels nor Sister Anne Catherine’s reflections, does one find some of the more gory, slow-motion type, details of Christ’s Crucifixion (i.e. falling face down with Cross onto earth).
I can’t say I think much of the sedevacantists but I am happy that Mel bucked the overriding trend of Hollywood to push out filth as quickly as possible while avoiding Christ at all costs. I think this took real courage and faith.
Personally, I cannot see how Mel is any more nor any less worthy to receive prayers than those OPs who post on the Prayer section of the Catholic Forum for help. I believe Mel would probably agree with this.
