http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN200403104510.html
Not a proud moment for the Filipino church, I think.
I do understand the church is hardly a monolithic entity--this is why it's survived for so long.
But you'd think those idiots back home would do more than serve up communion hosts and feel-good homilies; that they'd read up on issues and controversies brewing elsewhere in the world, instead of allowing themselves to be caught up in Gibson's fascistic filmmaking.
I knew Fr. Reuter, by the way; grew up working for him. He directed and produced many a theatrical production of lives of saints or something or the other where I was part of the cast. I even remember him changing the ending of one of the plays he wrote when I suggested that it was too optimistic.
This isn't his proudest moment, either.
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ah, noel, i never you were a thespian! and trained under fr. reuter even!
He is a wonderful guy. I can only assume he failed to read about Anne Catherine Emmerich or about Gibson, hence this blind acceptance of the movie.
Or Fr. Reuter was just following orders.
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