It's unanimous! Reuters, the Associated Press and the New York Times all report that the Vatican denies Pope J.P. II praised Mel Gibson's Cruciflix, The Passion. Nooners made the contrary claim in her December 17 Wall Street Journal Online column. In fact, Nooners not only reported the claim, she claimed to have verified the Pope's thumbs-up with Papal mouthpiece Joaquin Navarro-Valls (whose name Peg misspelled). The NYT article quotes Navarro-Valls as stating, "This office never comments on the private activities of the pope." (It also quotes Papal pal Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz as implicitly calling Gibson's producer a liar.)
We eagerly await the Wall Street Journal's correction or, alternatively, call for the excommunication of the Pope and his senior staff.
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