Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson's mug shot, July 28, 2006.

Mel Gibson is an American-born actor who grew up in Australia and became a celebrity starring in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series of films. As a director, Mel Gibson received a Best Director Oscar for Braveheart. He reached out to a different type of audience with his 2004 depiction of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, The Passion of the Christ.

Mel Gibson is a sedevacantist, traditionalist Catholic who rejects the validity and authority of the Second Vatican Council and holds the chair of Peter to be vacant. In an interview in Time magazine, January 27, 2003, he blamed Vatican II for declining Church membership and the pedophile priest crisis which erupted in 2002.

In July, 2006, Gibson was arrested for drunk driving. In his well publicized arrest, he cursed at the arresting officers, accused them of being Jews, and remarked that Jews were responsible for all the wars in the world.