Posted on 09/28/2006 11:06:47 AM PDT by Sabramerican
If you go the movie's web site, you won't see any place where you can let Disney know that you're not gonna see this movie.
If you go to Disney's corporate site, ditto.
Disney movies, part of the "no go" network.....
What the heck is a sedevaciontist??? I looked it up on the web. Not a hit.
So I would not expect an answer anytime soon as well.
How about this. Mel is an idiot, regardless of his faith.
Wasn't his kooky brand of Catholicism pretty widely reported. I recall seeing it written about in various places when the movie came out. Mostly through interviews with his father.
It's too bad about Mel--he's not an idiot, but it seems he's been steeped in hatred for too long. I wish he would develop part of his brain and see that it's not the Jews causing problems in the world but radical Islamists. Pat Buchanan, also another man who is not an idiot, suffers from this same malady.
should be "sedevacantist"...
Author misspelled the word(s).
sede-vacantist
Mel's been an apostate for some time now. Not long before "The Passion" was released, he indicated that he "had no use" for the Church magisterium...
It wasn't spelled correctly
It should have been spelled Sedevacanists, who denounce the post-Vatican II popes as heretics and believe that there has not been a Pope since. I believe Mel's father is a member of this sect.
"Vatican II corrupted the institution of the church. Look at the main fruits: dwindling numbers and pedophilia." — Time, January 27, 2003
I am a Conservative Catholic and had a lot of misgivings about Mr. Gibson. In the movie "Signs" his character was supposedly a Priest as one of the other characters mentioned going to him for confession. He was a married man though, so that confused me.
Mel Gibson is one of those people I hesitate to criticize because those who seem to be unraveling, often are. If he goes totally berserk and drives off a mountain or something, I'd be eating my words.
Therefore anything I have to say about Mel will be minimal and said over at Caskets on Parade (my favorite dead pool).
Thanks for the answer!
He was a Reverend, not a Priest.
Oh..I had thought he was supposed to have been a priest. A few of the other actors in the movie (other than his children) addressed him as "Father".
Not important though, but thanks.
It's is obvious what kind of Catholic Mel is: a heretical one who does not recognize the authority of the Pope or any of the reforms from Vatican II, and believes that the Jews killed Jesus and are cursed by it. This is the kind of guy who would have had no problem with a pope's kidnaping a Jewish child. Mel is a bad guy and he can join George Clooney is a special circle of hell - the one for people who hate America.
I think the character was an Episcopal priest. Remember, Mel has said that he does not know if his Episcopalian wife can get into Heaven!
Mel is no idiot. And the Iraq War never should have been launched.
Vatican II was heretical, contraverting the Christian theology of the previous 1900 years plus.
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