For all the controversy over gay marriage, abortion and the death penalty, few acts are as antithetical to the teachings of the Catholicism as divorce.
(To say nothing of cheating on your wife with a young Russian pop singer.)
Therefore, all eyes were on Mel Gibson yesterday as he attended Church of the Holy Family in Malibu.
The actor had spent the prior week in Costa Rica, following news of his pending divorce and rumors of an affair with Oksana Grigorieva. How did the congregation treat its most famous member? Very well, reportedly.
"He was drinking coffee with church guests and seemed very relaxed," a witness told People about Gibson, who socialized with friends for an hour after Mass.
Considering his upcoming divorce, would you welcome Gibson back to your church?
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April 20th, 2009 1:57 PM
I think that most Americans are disappointed with how Mel Gibson has turned out. After impressing all of us with his unflinchingly relentless work (in the face of harsh criticism) the Christian film The Passion of the Christ, he has just been downhill all the way ever since.
He's openly sworn at people in public, gotten arrested for DUI and now most recently has gotten caught up in adultery. His arrogant behavior is flagrantly un-Christian and he really needs to truly repent (i.e. change) if he wants to ever win back any admiration. Maybe this divorce will wake him up as he realizes that foolish, sinful actions have consequences and can't just be dismissed in a confessional.
April 21st, 2009 11:25 AM
there is acceptance and practice. Mel is good at the former but often fails at the latter.
e.g. most ppl accept that their money would be better used by dying Africans and they should give it to them, but the majority prefer to keep excessive amounts of cash for themselves at the expense of others lives.
another example is alcoholics anonymous. 1st step is to admit u are an alcoholic. it's better to make step 1 and fail at 2+ than just be in denial.
April 21st, 2009 2:36 PM
Points and laughs at Mel .... sad little man that he is.... what woman would want him, but for his money,,,,if not for that no one would care about him,,,, male skank
April 29th, 2009 3:25 PM
This news, as a Catholic Christian, is, of course...very disappointing.However, we cannot totally judge as to what is going on in his head,his spiritual life and his marriage.
No, "can't be just dismissed in a confessional", as one poster has put it,is missing a big point here.(1)The penitent
must be truly sorry for his/her sins and plan to amend their life to avoid this sin again. (2) The pentitent must do a 'penance' for their sin and agree to avoid the occasion of this sin from this time forward.(3)We do not know who goes to confession and what they confess, and in Mel's case...even the disposition of his marriage to Robyn Moore-Gibson.It does appear that he is not setting a good example for his family and the rest of us. Let's hope and pray for the best for all of the souls involved here.If Mel's problems revolve around a deep personal demon like alcohol,let's hope, for all involved, that he comes to grips
with it and overcomes it and picks up and straightens-up his life from there.
My personal feeling is that he is NOT a hypocrit about his faith, but rather has a great deal of difficulty with temptations in his life and maybe, even ...anger management.
He has had a long and successful career,he is creative and I have heard...very generous.Who knows why he has done what he has done,but alot of other men have done the same with alot less condemnation on them from society at large and the press in particular.
Remember,the Church/Faith is to help sinners...not exclude them. Let's hope that he can draw closer to God & Church now,and find the comfort for his soul that may have been missing while building his family and Hollywood career,thus far.
My best wishes and prayers for Mel, his family and all involved. Keep the Faith, Mel.-----Bobbi in Omaha
April 30th, 2009 5:59 PM
And this hypocrite said publicly his wife is going to hell for being an Episcopalian.
Mel: you are the best publicity for why catholics are going to pentocostal/fundamentalism than all the molestation scandals put together.
Oh, and your girlfriend looks like the Octomom.
May 11th, 2009 5:57 AM
Certainly Mel Gibson is a cheat, and what else. However, how about all those Hollywood blossoms who are so promiscuous and producing bastards who grow up to not know who their father is , not to say that their Mothers are not sure either !! Hollywood, a den of iniquity.
May 12th, 2009 2:29 AM
Catholicism... what's that got to do with anything? Most of us modern Catholics are disgusted with the church, the last two Popes and most of what they've got up to since 1960...
Any more than Osama bin Ladin or Muhammer Gaddafi represent muslims, we don't feel that Mel Gibson represents Catholics....
But we don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
Leave poor Mel alone... his "girlfriend" is 38, no spring chicken and if she was the tart / gold digger she has been portrayed to be in the media, how the hell did she live 10 years with Tim Dalton (a man known for his great taste in powerful, serious, influential and intellectual women!)
Hollywood is serious pressure on aný marriage, alcoholism and the problems Mel has admitted to publicly since the 80's nothing easy to deal with...
You are the guys whose president denied and then confirmed a blow job in the oval office... for F''ks sake wake up if you want the rest of the world to take you seriously..
And let Mel and Oksana get on with their lives.......