As I contemplate Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, the sequence I keep coming back to, again and again, is the scourging at the pillar. One reason, certainly, is that it is the most horrifying ...

Michael Miner unwittingly threw down the gauntlet in his March 5 [Hot Type] column on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. A writer in the New York Times had identified “a battle between secular ...

New Shroud of Turin replica is unveiled in D.C. Nora Creech discusses Christ's wounds as indicated by the Shroud of Turin at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C., March 28, 2023. (photo ...

When I revisited Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ (2004) over the summer after my first viewing 20 years ago in the winter of 2005, it strikes me as a powerful yet harrowing media artifact that ...