Rich: There are styles of approach to the Crucifixion, though, and Mel

Gibson’s is a distinctly Roman Catholic style. I recall one of my own

schoolmasters, a Church of England stalwart, saying that while Roman

Catholicism had much to be said in its favor, “they make too much of the

Crucifixion.” I think this is a definite difference of sensibility between

Roman Catholics and Protestants (among whom, for these purposes,

Anglo-Catholics can be included). I have always thought of obsessive

dwelling on the physical details of Christ’s passion as a very RC thing.