Loving the fruit, hating the tree: France and Mel Gibson - by Michael Moriarty
The creator of The Passion Of The Christ, Mel Gibson, was recently arrested for drunk driving and while being driven to the police station and while being "booked," he hurled an unbelievable string of anti-Semitic remarks at the officers which, even if enemies of his film of the Crucifixion set the police onto him - he is a known alcoholic and easily stopped on suspicion - basically gave the growing anti-Catholic movement all they needed to close in, even more tightly, on the Church. Mr. Gibson's father, as arduously as Mel Gibson tries to avoid the fact, is a known anti-Semite. He is a Sedivacantist, a member of an ultra-traditional Catholic splinter group criticized by most Catholics. He denies the Holocaust, supports Pope Pius XII's decisions in World War II and, well, obviously, like his son, adores Christ, the finest fruit on the Tree of Israel, but, yes, hates, loathes, despises the Tree.
Jacques Chirac, President of France and the major voice of the European Union, has said he will keep any mention of the Judeo-Christian origins of Europe out of the EU's Constitution. Well, ingratitude to the French is like spinach to Popeye, money to Wall Street and Female Supremacism to the Da Vinci Code. Post-Revolutionary France was spawned in the sewers of Da Vinci-like ingratitude....for everything !Pope John Paul II seemed to be inferring that same confession and public act of contrition by apologizing, on behalf of the Church, to Israel, Greece and the Ukraine, and a world which the Church had "done wrong." I don't think he was expecting Tel Aviv to rise and become Catholic. I do believe, however, he wished Catholics to return to their Church in forgiveness of this very wayward Bride of Christ. When the Protestants took the Body of Christ off the Cross and left nothing but that image of Man's Sins without the Redemptive love and sacrifice of our Lord, well, gee, that's all the ugly bathwater...without a Baby!
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