Comments on: Mel Gibson’s church asking new parishioners to fill out an application http://www.celebitchy.com/81206/mel_gibsons_church_asking_new_parishioners_to_fill_out_an_application/ Stylish celebrity escapism Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:25:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: kathy http://www.celebitchy.com/81206/mel_gibsons_church_asking_new_parishioners_to_fill_out_an_application/#comment-925125 kathy Mon, 10 May 2010 05:32:32 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=81206#comment-925125 Mel Gibson is crazy, he used to be such a huge movie star and a greatly admired family man. He has gone down in flames, even the mistress has dumped him, what a loser, the DUI's, the anti-semitic remarks, the crazy holocaust denying father....the cult-like faux catholic chapel...HE IS NUTS. if he starts giving out Kool-Aid the members of that church better run for the hills!! Mel Gibson is crazy, he used to be such a huge movie star and a greatly admired family man. He has gone down in flames, even the mistress has dumped him, what a loser, the DUI’s, the anti-semitic remarks, the crazy holocaust denying father….the cult-like faux catholic chapel…HE IS NUTS. if he starts giving out Kool-Aid the members of that church better run for the hills!!

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]]> By: Susan http://www.celebitchy.com/81206/mel_gibsons_church_asking_new_parishioners_to_fill_out_an_application/#comment-581730 Susan Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:34:50 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=81206#comment-581730 Sorry to say, Mel Gibson should be under excommunication or interdict right now according to Canon Law, which he knows is true. He owns the church and property, but if I were a pastor with his church, I'd tell him to straighten out and fly right, or I'd have to leave. He would probably think it over, at least. Everyone is stepping on eggs over there, and he needs someone to give him a good slap to wake him up. He thinks he can do anything he wants, because he holds the purse. No Mel, you can't commit adultery, and expect to make it to Heaven. You also can't make movies which are impure and call yourself a Catholic. Sure, the Passion of the Christ was a good movie, but that doesn't entitle you to special privileges with God. He will judge you for what you've done against His commandments. Please, for your own sake, ask for Conversion, leave the Russian, go back to Robyn, and straighten out your priorities. Pax! Sorry to say, Mel Gibson should be under excommunication or interdict right now according to Canon Law, which he knows is true. He owns the church and property, but if I were a pastor with his church, I’d tell him to straighten out and fly right, or I’d have to leave. He would probably think it over, at least. Everyone is stepping on eggs over there, and he needs someone to give him a good slap to wake him up. He thinks he can do anything he wants, because he holds the purse. No Mel, you can’t commit adultery, and expect to make it to Heaven. You also can’t make movies which are impure and call yourself a Catholic. Sure, the Passion of the Christ was a good movie, but that doesn’t entitle you to special privileges with God. He will judge you for what you’ve done against His commandments. Please, for your own sake, ask for Conversion, leave the Russian, go back to Robyn, and straighten out your priorities. Pax!

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]]> By: Otto Fick http://www.celebitchy.com/81206/mel_gibsons_church_asking_new_parishioners_to_fill_out_an_application/#comment-545297 Otto Fick Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:43:21 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=81206#comment-545297 L Ron Hubbard would be proud. L Ron Hubbard would be proud.

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]]> By: Uzi http://www.celebitchy.com/81206/mel_gibsons_church_asking_new_parishioners_to_fill_out_an_application/#comment-538857 Uzi Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:25:22 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=81206#comment-538857 @Cathy T...Whatever...I don't have any legal or financial expertise, but to me it still sounds like a colossal tax shelter that all super wealthy people, not just the Gibsons, are able to pull off. The fact that it involves "religion" makes it even more deplorable in my book. @Cathy T…Whatever…I don’t have any legal or financial expertise, but to me it still sounds like a colossal tax shelter that all super wealthy people, not just the Gibsons, are able to pull off. The fact that it involves “religion” makes it even more deplorable in my book.

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]]> By: CathyT http://www.celebitchy.com/81206/mel_gibsons_church_asking_new_parishioners_to_fill_out_an_application/#comment-538254 CathyT Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:23:37 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=81206#comment-538254 It depends what you mean by "his." Mel and Robyn control the foundation, but there are restrictions on how they can allocate the assets. The Gibsons would probably get into tax trouble if they donated APR Foundation assets to their children, but they could donate the assets to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the American Red Cross, or the American Atheist Magazine, for example. Bottom line is that they control what is done with the property, and for now Mel is quite content to rent the APR Foundation property (gratis?) to HFC. It depends what you mean by “his.” Mel and Robyn control the foundation, but there are restrictions on how they can allocate the assets. The Gibsons would probably get into tax trouble if they donated APR Foundation assets to their children, but they could donate the assets to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the American Red Cross, or the American Atheist Magazine, for example. Bottom line is that they control what is done with the property, and for now Mel is quite content to rent the APR Foundation property (gratis?) to HFC.

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]]> By: linda k http://www.celebitchy.com/81206/mel_gibsons_church_asking_new_parishioners_to_fill_out_an_application/#comment-538244 linda k Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:04:16 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=81206#comment-538244 so if he donated it to the foundation...is it his???? so if he donated it to the foundation…is it his????

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]]> By: linda k http://www.celebitchy.com/81206/mel_gibsons_church_asking_new_parishioners_to_fill_out_an_application/#comment-538243 linda k Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:03:09 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=81206#comment-538243 so if he has donated them to the foundation,,,,is it his? so if he has donated them to the foundation,,,,is it his?

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]]> By: CathyT http://www.celebitchy.com/81206/mel_gibsons_church_asking_new_parishioners_to_fill_out_an_application/#comment-538214 CathyT Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:17:54 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=81206#comment-538214 The A.P. Reilly Foundation (aka the tax shelter) and Holy Family Church are not one and the same. They are different entities, although the APR Foundation owns the property of HFC. This arrangement doesn't raise any tax problems because the APR Foundation isn't spending any money/distributing any funds yet. In other words, Mel buys the church property and building and then donates them to the foundation. He doesn't donate money to the foundation in order to have the foundation fund for the church. The salaries for the HFC priests and other HFC upkeep expenses are not being paid by the APR Foundation. All of this can be verified by checking the 990 forms at GuideStar.org The A.P. Reilly Foundation (aka the tax shelter) and Holy Family Church are not one and the same. They are different entities, although the APR Foundation owns the property of HFC.

This arrangement doesn’t raise any tax problems because the APR Foundation isn’t spending any money/distributing any funds yet. In other words, Mel buys the church property and building and then donates them to the foundation. He doesn’t donate money to the foundation in order to have the foundation fund for the church. The salaries for the HFC priests and other HFC upkeep expenses are not being paid by the APR Foundation.

All of this can be verified by checking the 990 forms at GuideStar.org

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]]> By: linda k http://www.celebitchy.com/81206/mel_gibsons_church_asking_new_parishioners_to_fill_out_an_application/#comment-537849 linda k Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:03:41 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=81206#comment-537849 this is so weird......i can see if you have this church or what ever you want to call it....and have people of the same belief come to it...cool....but then take tax shelter in it.....ok mel you can have it....regulate who comes...but no tax shelter...that's fair... this is so weird……i can see if you have this church or what ever you want to call it….and have people of the same belief come to it…cool….but then take tax shelter in it…..ok mel you can have it….regulate who comes…but no tax shelter…that’s fair…

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]]> By: Uzi http://www.celebitchy.com/81206/mel_gibsons_church_asking_new_parishioners_to_fill_out_an_application/#comment-537813 Uzi Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:44:58 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=81206#comment-537813 @Linda K...Yep, this is one huge tax shelter. The land alone is worth mega-millions. Robyn is the vice president of the foundation that runs it, so I wonder how everything will be divvied up in the divorce. I doubt she wants to have anything to do with the crazy church now that she's getting rid of the crazy man-whore! @Linda K…Yep, this is one huge tax shelter. The land alone is worth mega-millions. Robyn is the vice president of the foundation that runs it, so I wonder how everything will be divvied up in the divorce. I doubt she wants to have anything to do with the crazy church now that she’s getting rid of the crazy man-whore!

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