Should've read it.(Correspondence)(Letter to the Editor)
American Prospect, The, August, 2004 by Gordon, Mary
IN HER ARTICLE "SILENCE of the Flock" [June], Mary Gordon inaccurately accuses Catholic liberals of not speaking out about the alleged anti-Semitism of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Perversely, Gordon cites an article by John Coleman in Common weal, "Mel Gibson Meets Marc Chagall: How Christians & Jews Approach the Cross" (Feb.
27), as being "most offensive to me by a long chalk." Readers of The American Prospect would never suspect that Coleman's essay cautioned that "because of the way the cross has been misused, it is a ...
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