02/04/2004: "A Last Minute Edit to "The Passion""

Here's an article that quotes a source saying that Mel Gibson has removed a scene from "The Passion" that has the Jewish high priest Caiaphas declaring, "His blood be on us and on our children."

I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. It's hard to tell how far to go in being true to the Gospel text (this from Matt 27:25) when a movie growing crowd may not understand all the subtle issues and Church Teachings on that passage. I guess if the end result is that the Jewish Defamation League backs off some of its criticism of the movie and it doesn't have a huge impact on the story, it was the wise thing to do.