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To: sinkspur
I don't care about other aspects of this story. Gibson is not in union with Rome, nor is his chapel.

I just don't get the point of so many people being upset over whether Mel Gibson's chapel is acceptable to Rome... Assuming you are correct and Mel Gibson's chapel isn't accepted by Rome, then what? I mean, it's not as if the media is out there every day beating the drum in support of the Catholic church. Is the point supposed to be not to go see the film because Mel Gibson is a lapsed Catholic? That approach by the media would be supremely ironic, given their extensively reported concern about anti-semitism. If the point of that media barrage is not to be judgmental about other faiths, then attacks on Mel Gibson's "fringe" Catholicism seem to be misplaced. I guess I just don't understand why the Vatican's position on Mel Gibson's faith is so important to a lot of people.

200 posted on 02/20/2004 11:45:22 AM PST by GraceCoolidge
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To: GraceCoolidge
I just don't get the point of so many people being upset over whether Mel Gibson's
chapel is acceptable to Rome...


I don't know if it was posted here, but The Los Angeles Times ran what I
(as a non-Catholic) would call a "fair-and-balanced" report on the traditional
Catholic presence here in Southern California.

As a fairly conservative Protestant kinda' guy, I thought it was an intersting
article.
210 posted on 02/20/2004 12:58:17 PM PST by VOA
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