An April 2004 Pew Research Poll conducted a month after the release of The Passion found that the belief that Jews were responsible for Christ’s death was increasing and was particularly strong among viewers of The Passion.

A 2003 Washington Post/ABC News poll showed strong support for Pope John Paul II in general, but many disagreements with him among American Catholics-and more so among non-Catholics on specific issues.

Barbara C. Crafton is an Episcopal priest in Metuchen, N.J., and the author of Jesus Wept: When Faith & Depression Meet. She manages an online mental health site called The Geranium Farm.

Matthew Stanford is CEO of the Hope and Healing Center and Institute in Houston and an expert on mental illness and the church. He is the author of Grace for the Afflicted: A Clinical and Biblical Perspective on Mental Illness. He has studied how seminaries prepare students to address mental illness within faith communities.

Frank Page is a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention. His adult daughter Melissa killed herself in 2009, and his book Melissa: A Father’s Lessons From a Daughter’s Suicide examines the biblical truths that have sustained him since the tragedy. Contact through Roger S. “Sing” Oldham, vice president for convention relations.

Nancy Kehoe is a psychologist and a Catholic nun in Belmont, Mass. She is the author of Wrestling With Our Inner Angels: Faith, Mental Illness and the Journey to Wholeness. 

The Archdiocese of Prague is the administrative branch of the Catholic Church in Prague.

Catholic Assyrian Church of the East offers resources on current international and national news and a number of other topics concerning Catholicism. 

Paul D. Simmons is a clinical professor in the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine and an adjunct professor in the department of philosophy at the University of Louisville. He has written extensively on religion (specifically Baptist) and health care. He is the author of Freedom of Conscience: a Baptist and Humanist Dialogue (2000).