Oscar-winning actor-director Mel Gibson is in Italy working on a film on the passion of Christ at the Cinecittà studios. The movie focuses on the last hours of Christ's life and stars Jim Caviezel ...

Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" opened on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2004, immediately sparking the biggest religious-based movie controversy since ... well, perhaps since Martin Scorsese's "The ...

David Edelstein of Slate called the film “a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie,” and Passion certainly feels borne of the same film era that made Saw, Hostel and other torture porn movies so popular.

As Filipinos pause for Holy Week, Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" once again finds renewed relevance. The film, which stunned global audiences when it premiered 21 years ago, continues to ...

Readings: Matthew 21:1-11 Isaiah 50:4-7 Philippian 2:6-11 Mathew 26:14, 27:66 Palm Sunday is the most disjointed day of the church’s year. Its liturgy begins so joyfully only to conclude most woefully ...

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Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion is rich in symbolism, liturgical pageantry and an extra Gospel passage at the beginning of mass. This year the Sunday liturgies draw from cycle C readings, which ...

32 And they went to a place which was called Gethsem'ane; and he said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray." 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed ...

I was asked the following question: Pope Benedict XVI, in his book, Jesus of Nazareth, wrote that our Lord in Gethsemane, was very afraid. Now my question is this: He always told His disciples not to ...

As we approach Holy Week, the Scriptures focus more and more on the coming struggle Jesus will face as he goes to Jerusalem for his final Passover. The debates in the fourth Gospel are hard to read ...

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