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Why 'The Passion' appeals to young people

Mark Bosco

When I was leaving the Jesuit novitiate and assigned to teach high school, my novice master told me: “Remember St. Ignatius’s dictum: always go in their door and bring them out yours.” Although I am now a university professor, the phrase has been with me during a Lenten and Easter season in which the main topic of conversation has been Mel Gibson’s The (...)


 

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about the writer

Mark Bosco, SJ, is an assistant professor in the departments of English and theology at Loyola University Chicago. His book on Graham Greene will be published by Oxford University Press this fall.

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