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Gibson refused to be interviewed, but Noxon located the star's father, Hutton Gibson, in a Houston suburb. The elder Gibson has railed against the Vatican for more than 30 years, having written such books as "Is the Pope Catholic?" and published a quarterly newsletter, "The War Is Now."

Hutton told Noxon that Vatican II was "a Masonic plot backed by the Jews," called Pope John Paul II "Garrulous Karolus, the Koran kisser," and denied that the Holocaust ever happened. "Go ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body," he said. "It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?"