Twenty years ago, in the inky darkness of my local theater, I watched a story I had read or heard again and again. In truth, one might reason that it was foolish to pay good money to see a film whose plot and outcome is almost mind-numbingly familiar.
But I had never seen it. And it was brutal.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of Mel Gibson’s earth-shaking film The Passion of the Christ.
Tod Worner is a practicing physician and managing editor of Bishop Robert Barron’s Evangelization & Culture, the journal of the Word on Fire Institute. He is also the host of the Evangelization & Culture podcast.
