An aide to Pope John Paul II denied reports that the pontiff endorsed Mel Gibson’s controversial new Jesus movie. The Catholic News Service quoted a close friend of the pope’s, Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, as saying the pope “told no one his opinion of this film,” the Hollywood entertainment trade paper Variety reported.
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