[ultima ratio]

You need to try to understand real Catholics. Suffering for the faith is a bonus. Gibson was doing Caviezel a favor, allowing him to "offer it up." Anyhow, actors are known to suffer far more for merely artistic rewards. George Clooney was almost drowned more times than he'd care to remember for "The Perfect Storm." De Niro deliberately put on fifty pounds to play an aging boxer in "Raging Bull". Give me a break.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"Suffering for the faith is a bonus. Gibson was doing Caviezel a favor, allowing him to "offer it up."

If Caviezel is as devout as the article suggests, he probably would not have had it any other way.

Just as an aside: The Mass offered at Mr. Gibson's private chapel is the Tridentine, in Latin.