Talking Back: Father Fulco's Baptism of Fire

In the fall issue, Marilyn Beker, Loyola Marymount University, wrote of the tension between teaching the ideals of Jesuit education and then sending students into the world of Hollywood, where values are bound to clash. To keep conversation going, we invited Loyola's Edward J. Siebert, S.J., professor of communications and director of Loyola Production, to sit down with William J. Fulco, S.J., professor of Mediterranean studies, and discuss Fr. Fulco's work with Mel Gibson on the script of Gibson's film, The Passion of Christ, which is to open nationwide on Ash Wednesday.

Then we turned to New York, where two young film writers, David Baugnon and Henry Griffin, both graduates of Loyola New Orleans, are establishing their careers, and asked them to consider Professor Beker's article and compare its observation to their experience.