[Maximilian]

Great article by a writer for a daily secular newspaper who really gets it. Unlike the clueless idiots running the church such as our local diocesan rag that ran 3 articles this week warning people away from the movie. They also repeated the lie of the bishop of San Jose that the Gospels are not historical records.

This writer makes such a number of good points and has such a way with words, but here are a few highlights:

Rabbi Lapin’s moral integrity and plain speaking have done more for Christian-Jewish relations than a thousand futile ecumenical symposia and weasel-worded scriptural trade-offs brokered by pressure groups and Vatican appeaseniks.

Yes! one Rabbi Lapin makes up for a number of Eisners and Katzenbergs and Harvey Weinsteins, and for a number of Cardinal Kaspers and Keelers as well.

For, make no mistake, this is an intensely Catholic film. Mel Gibson is a traditional Catholic who rejects the humbug and chaos of the Second Vatican Catastrophe - as do an increasing number of the disillusioned survivors stumbling around in the ruins of the once-mighty Roman Catholic Church.

What a great phrase, one that will have to enter my lexicon -- Second Vatican Catastrophe. Let's not pussyfoot around with obfuscation about the "spirit" of the "implementation." Vatican II was a catastrophe starting with the opening speech of Pope John XXIII which won him Time magazine Man of the Year.

"the Easter People, the dancers in sanctuaries, those who claim They Are Church and all the assorted Lollards and Fifth Monarchy Men who have converted Catholicism into a crankfest" and "Of course, we need some ritual and collective spirituality: so, let’s go and hang some cuddly toys on the railings of Kensington Palace."

Anyone still participating in the "one-size-fits-all, syncretic religion," take a look in the mirror.

[AnAmericanMother]

"Lollards and Fifth Monarchy Men" . . . LOL! . . . oh, boy! Somebody's been reading their 17th century English History.

[livius]

which won him Time magazine Man of the Year.

You're right, this is rarely a good sign.

[polemikos]

What a great phrase, one that will have to enter my lexicon -- Second Vatican Catastrophe. Let's not pussyfoot around with obfuscation about the "spirit" of the "implementation." Vatican II was a catastrophe starting with the opening speech of Pope John XXIII which won him Time magazine Man of the Year.

The smoke of Satan was there before VC2.

[Aquinasfan]

Unlike the clueless idiots running the church such as our local diocesan rag that ran 3 articles this week warning people away from the movie.

Man, I thought ours was bad. We got the USCCB review below the fold in a small space with a misleading headline.

They're missing the premeire, positive religio-cultural event in the last 20 (30, 40, 50?) years.