One must be a worthy vessel by putting such negative thoughts behind you. And in Gibson’s interpretation of Catholicism that can only be done through the sacrement of Penance. To allow himself to continue to carry the Cardinal Sin of Wrath adds to his load of sin and to receive communion while knowingly in a state of sin he commits yet another. They just keep piling up. Ask your parents, though I thought you Hispanics all knew how this worked. 
I thought Gibson did well and came across as less artificial than most celebrities Diane interviews, though I didn’t see the whole interview. And I respect his not wanting to discuss crazy old Hutton. And did he really say that his wife, a good woman who happens to be an Episcopalian, will go to Hell because she isn’t Catholic? If so I can’t say I am surprised because I grew up in the same pre-Vatican II Catholicism. And I wasn’t surprised that he claimed, and I accept, that he is not anti-Semitic. Nope, we were raised to think of Jews as merely poor, benighted souls whose final trips to Hell were inevitable but nothing personal. Same with Muslims (we called them Mohammedans) and other non-Christians who had heard of Jesus but had not accepted Him. It was sad that they had chosen to live in error but they weren’t really part of the Elect in the first place, anyway, having been born in another faith.
No, our special approbation was reserved for the Protestants, those treacherous, traitorous, heretics who had taken the very Words of the Lord and warped them to serve their own ends. Monsters who had spat upon the Pope and the Holy Mother Church and had turned majestic Christianity into a grotesque parody, with services in the vernacular, women in the clergy, birth control, and other abominations too horrifying to mention. It could even be said that I was taught by some of the older nuns and priests to hate Protestants and as late as five years ago, though I had rejected Roman Catholicism twenty five years before, I could still not bring myself to become one.
My wife was raised as a Methodist and she saw the same thing in reverse. Her parents only accepted me because I was not a practicing Catholic. She actually heard in church archaic terms like “popery.” Ministers told stories of how Catholics believed that unbaptised babies, through no fault of their own, burned in Hell. (Technically, no. Limbo, a nice place like Heaven except without the Divine Presence, was reserved for those good people who had never been exposed to Jesus and had therefore not made a conscious rejection of Him, like pagans in Darkest Africa and unbaptised babies. Yes, a nasty belief. No, not as bad as it was made out to be.)
This was how it stood forty years ago. The Thirty Years War had cooled to three hundred years of cold war. Hate the Jews? Who had the time? We were too busy hating the Lutherans. The infighting between splinter groups is often more viscious and personal. Which is why I am so confused by the Evangelicals’ love of Mel’s movie. When a Fundie friend called the other day to invite us to a special screening I wanted to ask her if she realized all this, as she is too young to remember the Ecumenical Council when an effort was made to end the centuries of hatred and mistrust. I wanted to say, “Don’t you realize that Mel Gibson is theologically just this side of Torquemada and is convinced that you and your children are heretics and will burn in Hell forever for your false beliefs? Don’t you think maybe you should reconsider supporting him so heartily?” Yeesh.
I am happy to have gotten away from the cult of death that was pre-Vatican II Catholicism. I’ll leave the celebration of Christ’s death to Mel and a bunch of Irish grandmothers. I’ll leave seeing how gruesome one can depict Christ’s death to Mr Gibson and Matthias Grunewald and Sister Anne Catherine Emmerich. I’ll stick with a faith that celebrates His life.