Earlier this week came word from The Pope's personal secretary Archibishop Stanislaw Dziwisz who denied the pontiff's apparent quote "It is as it was" about the Mel Gibson movie after a private screening last month.
Today CNN's Vatican analyst and National Catholic Reporter correspondent John Allen reports that "Vatican sources had confirmed to him that the pope did indeed comment on the film".
Allen went into further specifics according to NewsMax: "In mid-December, December 17, to be specific, a senior Vatican official told my newspaper that the pope had seen the film and had said, 'It is as it was' meaning, as you indicated, that the pope found it to be historically accurate based on the Gospels. Now, at the same time, we have other Vatican officials, on background, who are continuing to insist the pope did say this, and we have yet other sources on the record who are saying they heard Dziwisz on other occasions say the pope did say it".
In other news related to the film, The Z Review has posted up fifteen new stills from the picture - just click any of the thumbnails below for more:
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