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 ...

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 ...

Mt 21:1-11; Is 50:4-7; Ps 22; Phil 2:6-11; Mt 26:14—27:66 The utter improbability of the Gospel is apparently something the early church was eager to proclaim. By worldly standards, the arrival of the ...

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 ...

“An angel comforting Jesus before his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane,” Carl Bloch, 1873 (Wikimedia Commons) “He knew. He had to have known.” A parishioner, recently returned from the Holy Land, ...

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.

The bishop of Brooklyn said he will never pray the Stations of the Cross, say the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary, or read the passion narratives in the same way again, since he saw Mel Gibson's ...

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Why evangelicals are cheering a movie with profoundly Catholic sensibilities. In the history of modern evangelical enthusiasms, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ seems to be joining WWJD ...

Why evangelicals are cheering a movie with profoundly Catholic sensibilities. In the history of modern evangelical enthusiasms, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ seems to be joining WWJD ...