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From today’s SF Chronicle, hat tip to Jimmy Mac: The Most Contentious Story Ever Told 100 Years of Fury over Jesus Films Art Scandals as Old as Religion Jesus’ Life in Music

One of several we’ll see over the next few days, this one with the LATimes Given that early audience tracking forecasts suggest that “The Passion of the Christ,” — even with its protracted torture sequences, R-rating and dialogue in Aramaic and Latin — could earn grosses of $30 million in its opening days, it’s strange…

A fascinating story about a Boston Catholic parish torn up by anti-gay-marriage fliers in their midst. Since the Supreme Judicial Court ruled to legalize gay marriage in November, Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley has been speaking out against same-sex marriage, and many priests have addressed the topic from the pulpit. But the priests at St. Paul…

Some Catholics, finally, quoted in regard to the movie. From the Rev. Jordi Rivero, director of Respect Life ministry of the Catholic Archdiocese of Miami: “The Passion movie portrays most faithfully and impressively the Passion of Our Lord. It is providential for our times.” From the Rev. Alberto Cutié, director of the archdiocese’s Radio Peace…

Or at least that’s how it turned out. Took Katie to a local production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It was very well done – obviously a fun show to do. I had never seen it before, although I used to have the soundtrack, and knew it rather well. But…now having seen it,…

A NYTimes piece on the Southern Baptist strategy in New York City “If you give them something of value, that kind of sets it apart,” said Kelley Searcy, a missionary from Atlanta, in a Midtown office on a recent Thursday as she and six other missionaries stapled thousands of cereal bars to postcards advertising a…

Dare we hope? Dare we? The new administrator of Springfield says things …referring to the ongoing sex abuse crisis in the church, Sniezyk said church officials must acknowledge a culture that protected abusive priests existed years ago. “We have to come clean,” said Sniezyk, recalling how as a young priest he heard rumors of “cliques…

From Conor Dugan over at Christus Victor He also includes an excerpt from the forward that Mel Gibson wrote to one of the books that’s been put out (by Tyndale, if I’m not mistaken) on the film.

A long, long article from the LA Times Magazine. Well worth registering for. Do it. The only really odd thing about the article, to me, (in an admittedly quick first read) was the failure to put these groups in the context of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Are there any “legal” Tridentine Masses in the…
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