-CathNews Admits Papal Quote True
-Friday, Jan. 23, 2004
CathNews, an online news service, reported today that the Pope did in
fact offer praise for Mel Gibson's new film "The Passion of the Christ."
Gibson's production company, Icon, had claimed that they were informed
by Vatican officials that after seeing the film the Pope remarked, "It
is as it was."
Earlier this week, Catholic News Service quoted Vatican sources,
including the Pope's longtime personal secretary, as saying the Pope
offered no comment about the film. CNS reported that the Vatican
categorically denied Gibson's claim about the papal remark.
But now another Catholic news agency report, CathNews, published a story
clarifying what really happened.
In their report headlined "Vatican ends controversy on Mel Gibson film
publicity," CathNews stated flatly: It "would now appear to be that the
Pope did see the film and he did say the comment that was attributed to
him but it was meant purely as private comment and not for public
consumption."
And as far the Jews killing Jesus you're partly right. Pilate did want
to let Jesus go. He was urged to prosecute by the Jewish preists. In
Mark Pilate asked them:
"Then what shall I do with the man whom you call the King of the Jews?"
And they cried out again, "Crucify him." And Pilate said to them, "Why,
what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him."
The other 3 gospels make the jews look even worse.
I think though that since the Crucifixion being central to christian
belief, was pre-ordained. Without it Christianity wouldn't exist. I
think Christians can stop blaming Jews and Jews can stop being
defensive.
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 8:59 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Final thoughts on Gibson
At 08:04 AM 2/23/2004, you wrote:
>"It has as much to do with the Christian Bible as Pirates of the
>Caribbean had to do with the 17th century." -That's an amazing piece of
>clairvoyance for someone who hasn't seen the movie yet.
>
>-A lot of scholars and even the pope (who's job it is to know about
>these things) agree that it's a VERY good representation of history.
>"It is as it was" I believe was the Pope's quote.
I thought the Vatican denied saying that and slammed the movie-people
for
claiming otherwise? I could be wrong.
My mother--a devote Roman Catholic--made some off-hand comment about
the
Jews killing Jesus last time I was visiting. This offended my partially
Jewish GF. When she was growing up, it was apparently the teaching of
the
(Roman Catholic) church that the Jews killed Jesus.
I don't remember that from my upbringing, however in the memories of
childhood that I'm not blocking I do remember Pilate being painted as a
guy
who wanted to let Jesus go.
On a semi-unrelated note, in the scrapbook section of the Prehistory
of
the Far Side there is a doodle of "Jesus rising from the grave." It
shows
the tomb in the background and Jesus standing over a skillet / drinking
coffee. The thought bubble is "Man, I wonder what time it is; feels
like
I've been dead for three days."
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