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• Bold 'Passion' won't create anti-Semites | While a few search for negative meanings in this depiction of Jesus' suffering, the true Christians will be focused on the most significant teaching of the Gospel, namely love (Bob Ray Sanders, Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)
  
  
• Mel Gibson's Passion doesn't have to be divisive | Let's hope that when it's released on Feb. 25, its passions for improving the world through love and unity are clear (Howard Goodman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
  
  
• Mel and me | Gibson should donate a share of the profits from The Passion to organizations battling anti-Semitism (Maurice O'Sullivan, The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  

Other Jesus movies:

• Enraged filmgoers: The wages of faith? | The advent of Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" has brought with it a controversy that seems, at least at first glance, familiar, even ritualistic (The New York Times)
  
  
• Depictions of Christ in cinema | Depicting Christ on the big screen is a sure-fire way to offend a lot of people (Morning Edition, NPR)
  
  
• Films about religion stir passionate debates | God, in almost any public setting outside sanctuary walls, is controversial (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)
  
  

Other films:

• New movies get spiritual | With the release of at least two movies in 2004, the film industry is reasserting the role of spiritual themes, several film experts say (The Wichita Eagle)
  
  
• Film review: Saved! | Receiving a generous reception here at Sundance -- not exactly the heart of the Bible Belt or even Middle America -- this comedic jape delivers some sharp jabs at obvious targets, namely the boosterish excesses of American religiosity (The Hollywood Reporter)
  
  

Catholicism:

• Leading his flock | Has the new archbishop of St. Louis crossed a line? (Robert P. George & Gerard V. Bradley, National Review Online)
  
  
• 1 in 6 Catholics in the Archdiocese of Boston go to Mass, data show | Parish closings, attendance linked (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Foreign priests fill void in area pulpits | Catholic churches throughout the area are relying on priests from other countries to fill the vacancies created by a large number of men leaving the priesthood (The Washington Times)
  
  

Vatican attacks AIDS drug manufacturers:

• Vatican condemns Aids drug firms | The Vatican has spoken out against pharmaceutical companies which make huge profits from anti-Aids drugs (BBC)
  
  
• Vatican condemns drug companies' anti-AIDS profiteering (AFP)
  
  
• Aids drugs giants are accused of genocide | Drugs manufacturers were accused yesterday of "genocidal action" in Africa by charging unaffordable prices for drugs to fight HIV/Aids (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  

Abuse:

• The bishops' whistle-blowing lesson | When the American bishops meet this week in Dallas, hoping to make their peace with American Catholics, they might give a thought to FBI agent Coleen Rowley. She could teach them something they need to know: how to stand up to the home office (Mary McGrory, The Washington Post)
  
  
• Religion in the news: The dissenting bishop | Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln won't require background checks of all current employees and volunteers who have regular contact with children. Nor will Bruskewitz let his diocese participate in a study designed to tally every priestly abuse case in the country since 1950 (Associated Press)
  
  

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January (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48