If you don't have the stomache for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, maybe this version using candy Peeps will be easier to handle. Actually, even with Peeps, the music makes it kind of heavy sometimes.......

Today is Good Friday, the day Christ was crucified. It is a holy day of obligation for people like me, who were raised as strict Catholics. I always liked Mary, especially the poetic memorare prayer and the Queen of the May festival where we sang Bring Flowers of the Rarest and crowned Mary with flowers. But I never quite understood the church's obsession with blood and suffering. Hairshirts? Self-flagellation? Any sin can be forgiven if......