A call came to my home one night in late June 2003: “Do you want to see The Passion?” Of course, I did. Everybody in Christendom did. Already that summer, opposing voices in the Catholic Church, in ...

Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" opened on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2004, immediately sparking the biggest religious-based movie controversy since ... well, perhaps since Martin Scorsese's "The ...

It’s the second coming of “Christ” — but the original cast won’t be resurrected. Mel Gibson’s long-gestating sequel to “The Passion of the Christ” will start shooting in Rome, but with a completely ...