The pope has seen a special screening of Mel Gibson's 'Passion' film. Reports are he liked it:
Pope John Paul has seen Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion" about Christ's final hours and was moved by it, a Vatican source said on Thursday.
He said the pope saw the film with his long-time Polish secretary, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, about 10 days ago.
The source also confirmed reports that the pope told his secretary after viewing the film: "It is as it was," meaning he considered it an authentic portrayal of Gospel accounts of the last hours in Christ's life.
The Vatican is also rejecting claims by some Jewish groups that the film is anti-semitic:
"I loved it and it is not anti-Semitic," Father Augustine Di Noia, a senior official in the Vatican's doctrinal department, told Reuters on Thursday.
Asked if the film was as violent as has been reported, Di Noia said: "It not just violent, it's brutal."
Which is as it was.
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