[lbo-talk] Fox News Analyst: Gibson's "Passion" is Anti-Semitic

[C. G. Estabrook]

That was not the position of the Roman church even before Vatican II. (For
the ecclesiastical-minded, see DS 3866-3873.) --CGE

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Jon Johanning wrote:


> ...The background to this is that, since the Council of Trent in the
> 16th century, which was responding to the Reformation, the official
> Catholic position was that the Catholic Church was the "body of
> Christ," meaning that if you were outside that "body" Christ couldn't
> save you. The 2nd Vatican Council in the early 1960s became much more
> inclusive, but old Mel, going with his sect's rejection of Vatican II,
> feels he has to condemn his own wife to hell-fire (or at least
> purgatory, I suppose -- I don't know old Mel's position on the exact
> arrangements in the hereafter)...
>