[Coleus]

We believe in ONE Holy and Catholic Apostolic Church.

Mel Gibson is NOT Catholic since he built his own church and hired his own priests. The only person who contains the full priesthood of Jesus Christ in a diocese is the Bishop. It is he who gives permission to build churches and blesses the ground on which it's built and then so blesses and dedicates the church, which by civil law he also is named a trustee of the property. Any "priest" in the Catholic Church MUST be under a bishop including those in religious orders, and for a priest to perform sacraments, he needs to be under a bishop and if outside the diocese he needs permission from his bishop and the bishop to where he is going to be stationed.

Mel Gibson is a great guy and shows a good example on how some in the motion picture industry should live, he is pro life, has 6 kids and is not divorced. I just wish he would have gone to his local bishop and worked something out.

[RFT1]

His local Bishop is Cardinal Mahony, so I doubt anything could have been worked out. Material schism such as seen at parish such as St Joan of arc in Minneapolis MN is in my opinion far more dangerous that being in a illregular relationship with Rome.

http://www.stjoan.com

[Domestic Church]

Gibson might well be canonized in the future...I wouldn't want to have to explain to St.Peter that "Mel Gibson is NOT Catholic".

[nickcarraway]

So you believe that everyone who goes to a Jesuit, Franciscan, Benedectine, Holy Ghost Father, etc. university is not Catholic?

I went to Santa Clara University for four years and never realized I left the Catholic Church.

[Marysecretary]

Maybe he tried and was turned down.