Catholicism

What Mormons are not saying about "The Passion"

Erika Dyson

March 6, 2004

Over the last few months, it seems anyone who has ever heard of the Galilean carpenter named Jesus has been expected to offer up their two-cents on Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ," preferably to a reporter.
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An Undeniable History

Gloria Rodríguez

March 1, 2004

A group of rabbis, wearing yarmulkes, stepped outside an Upper East Side theatre after the morning showing of Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ on the day it was released -- Ash Wednesday. While some Christians went to see the film for inspiration on the first day of Lent, the rabbis went to hold a press conference addressing the potential harm it could cause for the Jewish community. The controversy surrounding Jewish claims that the film portrays Jews as the killers of Jesus attracted a pack of reporters to the East 86th Street theatre.
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Passion

Michele Vella

March 1, 2004

Susana Bailon, 26, remembers being surrounded by images of the passion or the crucifixion of Christ since she was a little girl. Her mother placed a cross with a porcelain figure of Christ adorned with a crown of thorns, dripping with blood and covered with cuts on every inch of his body above the kitchen table and in the family room. Each year during the Easter season, the nuns at her Catholic and predominantly Hispanic elementary school gave the children a photocopied black and white image of Christ.
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Mel Gibson: Judged by his Fruit

Deborah Pardo

March 1, 2004

It's difficult to assess the motivations of people -- let alone, a public figure like Mel Gibson. But sometimes what people produce reveal what's going on inside them.
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Faith in Action

Michele Vella

February 16, 2004

Rosita, an illegal immigrant from the Puebla, Mexico, walks towards the basement of Queen of Angels Church. She makes a fist and raises her hand in an attempt to knock on the door but then, suddenly, turns away. Back and forth, back and forth -- she looks like she is performing some frenzied dance, charged by a combination of her nerves, cold weather and pride. "I would have never imagined I would be asking for this kind of help," she says in Spanish.
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