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The Passion of the Christ (news):

• Mel Gibson agrees to change 'Passion' film to combat anti-Semitism | New ending will highlight death of Jews (Mike Evans, WorldNetDaily)
  
  
• Charges of anti-Semitism dog 'Passion of Christ' | Where Jewish groups see anti-Semitism, the Pope sees accuracy. The Vatican now refuses to comment. (Morning Edition, NPR)
  
  
• Love, hate & furor | Controversy grows over Mel Gibson's 'Passion' (New York Daily News)
  
  
• Many passionate for Gibson's Jesus film | Advance ticket sales and screenings will be available before the premiere (TCPalm.com, Fla.)
  
  
• Christians launch effort to counter film's impact | With the controversial film "The Passion of the Christ" set to open next month, some Christian groups are launching campaigns to counter theological errors that may exist in Mel Gibson's account of the death of Jesus, while several Roman Catholic scholars are calling on their church to outline publicly its doctrinal belief as a counterbalance to the movie (Forward)
  
  
• Will Gibson film on Jesus poison Christian-Jewish ties? | While the furor over the movie is likely to continue, interfaith activists remain confident that it won't adversely affect progress in Catholic-Jewish relations (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
  
  
• A tie-in made in heaven | Mel Gibson has tapped into a church-based marketing network that has been waiting for a religious film like his 'Passion of the Christ.' (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Churches buy thousands of tickets to 'Passion' | Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" doesn't open in the theaters for almost a month, but a growing number of Chicago area churches already are buying thousands of tickets to ensure that their members get to see it (Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  
• Many worry about new Mel Gibson movie | Jews and Christians who fear Mel Gibson's epic on the crucifixion of Jesus will fuel anti-Semitism are planning lecture series, interfaith talks and other programs to try to mute the film's impact (Associated Press)
  
  

The Passion of the Christ (opinion):

• Vatican intrigue deepens | I believe the papal spokesman is lying to cover his tracks (Rod Dreher, Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Also: More controversy surrounding Mel Gibson's new film | "I'm afraid that the Vatican itself, through its own duplicity and through its own lying have thrown Mel Gibson to the wolves," says Rod Dreher (The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News)
  
  
• Passionate thoughts | The controversy over Mel Gibson's new movie (William F. Buckley, National Review Online)
  
  
• The Times has no Passion for Christian forgiveness | The New York Times seems set on a Mad Max shoot-out with Mel Gibson over his movie, The Passion, which deals with the last hours in the life of Jesus Christ. I don't see the newspaper scoring any points from one of its most discreditable performances (Frank Devine, The Australian)
  
  
• Catholics greet Gibson's 'passion' with a cacophony, not a chorus | For the love of the Holy One, my Jewish friends, let's not make this another Jewish-Catholic conflict. That would only sell more tickets. (Andrew Greeley, Forward)
  
  
• There's never been a 'Passion' for the truth | Depictions of the Crucifixion always have taken liberties (James Shapiro, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Inside Mel Gibson's "Passion" | A clergyman infiltrates the grass-roots campaign for Gibson's new Gospel film to catch a screening and reports that Jews, Arabs -- and Christians -- should be worried (Cintra Wilson, Salon.com)
  
  
• Related: Passionate letters | The Revealer has begun to wonder whether the real story around The Passion is not so much its alleged anti-Semitism as the odd combination of indignation and bemusement with which so many journalists and secularists have responded to the film -- or rather, to rumors of the film, since so few have actually seen it (Jeff Sharlet, The Revealer)
  
  

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