What on earth is Mel Gibson thinking? The great film sirector’s choice of a radical pro-abortion extremist to play the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in The Resurrection of the Christ has ignited a firestorm of protest in the actress’s native Poland, perhaps the most pro-life nation on Earth.
The long-awaited sequel to The Passion of the Christ, now in production at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios, has been completely recast, with Polish actress Katarzyna Smutniak playing Jesus’ mother, Mary.
The choice of Smutniak “seems like sheer blasphemy,” Olivier Bault, Poland’s Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture and the Center for Life and Family director of communications, told LifeSiteNews.
Smutniak “has given her unequivocal support to the so-called ‘Women’s Strike,’ whose demands include the legalization of abortion on demand and which often took on a vulgar and aggressive tone toward the Catholic faith — seen by pro-abortion activists as responsible for the Polish Constitutional Tribunal’s 2020 ruling banning eugenic abortion, i.e., abortion motivated by a diagnosis of congenital anomaly (such as Down syndrome) or an incurable disease of the unborn child,” Bault said.
“The ‘Women’s Strike’ protests have more than once included the interruption of Holy Masses, acts of vandalism, damage to churches, and even church arsons in Poland,” he noted.
In 2020, after Poland tightened its laws against abortion, Smutniak posted a picture of herself on Instagram with disturbing pro-abortion messages written across her face — “This is war,” “the right to abortion.” “F*** off” — while offering a middle finger to those who oppose abortion.
Would Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, paint such slogans on her face?