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Gibson is a traditionalist Catholic who may care little what the more liberal Bishops' Conference thinks. But the guidelines' very existence and concerned tone suggest the sensitivity of the issue facing anyone translating the Passion for stage and screen: Is it possible to do a biblically accurate drama about Jesus...
Modern theologians find such passages highly subject to interpretation. They point out that Jesus and the Apostles saw themselves as Jews; John's wholesale condemnation of the faith, they speculate, may reflect Christian-Jewish rancor in A.D. 95, when that Gospel was written, more than the politics of Jesus' era...
The Holocaust caused much Catholic rethinking. It contributed to the Second Vatican Council's 1965 decision to clear the Jews of deicide. It also lurks behind the bishops' 1988 guidelines, which, in micromanaging prospective productions, strive so earnestly to help modern auteurs sidestep the Passion plays' excesses. "Presentations ... should [avoid...
DIED. JOHN GEOGHAN, 68, former priest imprisoned in 2002 for sexual abuse; after being attacked by a fellow inmate; in Boston. Revelations of Geoghan's misdeeds--130 people sued him for molesting them as children--led to a nationwide scandal for the Catholic Church after it was discovered that Geoghan...
DIED. John J. Geoghan, 68, former Catholic priest and convicted child molester, after being strangled by an inmate serving a life sentence for killing a man he believed was gay; in a maximum security facility in Shirley, Massachusetts. Geoghan was accused of sexually abusing up to 150 boys during his...