A senior French Catholic leader described “The Passion of Christ” as “collective sadism.” Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris Jean-Marie Lustiger, who saw the film last week, told the Catholic TV channel KTO that the film was sadistic and that “the love of Christ could not be measured in liters of hemoglobin or the amount of spilled blood.”
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