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Hutton Peter Gibson (born August 26, 1918) is the father of actor Mel Gibson and a writer on religion. He was born in Montclair, New Jersey and raised in Chicago, Illinois, the son of businessman John Hutton Gibson and Australian opera star Eva Mylott. He currently resides in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,[1] after living many years in Texas and for a time in Summersville, West Virginia.[2]

Early life

According to Wensley Clarkson's biography of Mel Gibson, Hutton studied for the priesthood in a Chicago seminary called the Society of the Divine Word. According to one friend of the family, he left the seminary on the eve of World War II, disgusted with the Modernist doctrines taught there.

Hutton Gibson served as a US Army Officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II after graduation from an OCS program. He was wounded in action at the Battle of Guadalcanal and invalided home in 1944.

He married Anne Reilly Gibson on May 1, 1944 at the Catholic parish of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Brooklyn, New York. They had ten children and adopted another after their arrival in Australia. Anne died in 1990. Hutton has since remarried.

Hutton Gibson and Jeopardy!

Hutton Gibson claims to have won a substantial amount of money on the Art Fleming version of the Jeopardy! game show (accounts vary between $20,000 and $25,000)--enough money, he claimed, to move his family to Australia in 1968, reportedly because he believed that changes in American society were immoral.

Whether or not Hutton Gibson ever appeared on Jeopardy! will probably never be verifiable, as episodes from this era do not survive; winnings in the neighborhood of $20,000.

Hutton Gibson in Australia

After the promulgation of the Novus Ordo, the Gibson family home in Sydney, Australia was used as a secret chapel where the Tridentine Mass was offered. Also, Hutton used the house to store statues and altar relics which were being discarded by Catholic parishes at the time.

Hutton was the secretary of the Latin Mass Society of Australia, but was ousted after becoming increasingly vocal about his belief that the See of Peter is vacant due to the Popes embracing heresy (see Sedevacantism).

Notable beliefs

Hutton Gibson is a Sedevacantist (a form of Traditionalist Catholicism). His ideas, however, are rejected by many in the Traditionalist Catholic community. He believes that the Second Vatican Council introduced heretical doctrines into the Catholic Church, and he believes that every Pope elected since Pope John XXIII have been illegitimate anti-popes. He has been especially critical of the late Pope John Paul II (whom he refers to as "Garrulous Karolus the Koran Kisser"). [3] He has also stated that the Second Vatican Council was the result of a secret anti-Catholic plot orchestrated by both Masons and Jews.[4]

Gibson adheres to the theory that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were not carried out by Islamist terrorists aboard the planes, but rather by an unknown party using a "remote control,".[5] He further believes that Jews want to take over the world and establish a one world religion and government.[6]

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Hutton Gibson (left) with Holocaust denier Fredrick Töben, head of the Adelaide Institute, at the 2003 International Conference on Authentic History, Real News and the First Amendment

When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (prior to becoming Pope) stated that, although Judaism did not accept Jesus, it was nevertheless the "elder brother" of Christianity, Gibson observed that Abel also had an elder brother.[7]

He questions aspects of the Jewish Holocaust, especially the commonly accepted statistic that between five million to seven million Jews were killed, arguing that it would have been impossible for the Nazis to have disposed of so many bodies.[8] He further claims that most of the Holocaust was "fiction,"[8] that the thousands of Jews who disappeared from Poland during World War II "got up and left",[8] and that census statistics prove there were more Jews in Europe after World War II than before (a claim that is disputed by historians).[9] In support of his father, Mel Gibson claims that his father's beliefs do not amount to Holocaust denial. (Mel Gibson also says that he will not speak out publicly against his father.)

Hutton Gibson publishes a quarterly newsletter called The War is Now! in which he details many of his views.

Quotes

  • "We feel like hunted Christians in the catacombs - merely because we want to celebrate the Latin Rite which the Church has used from time immemorial." Hutton speaking to his local newspaper in 1975 about what life was like for Traditionalist Catholics in the years immediately following Vatican II. Quoted in Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson: Living Dangerously," page 43.
  • "The greatest benefit anyone can have is to be a Catholic. You have the lifelong satisfaction of being right. But we can't go to mass, there are no sacraments and I feel cheated." Excerpted from Wensley Clarkson's "Mel Gibson: Living Dangerously," page 44.

Books

  • The Enemy is Here!
  • Is the Pope Catholic? (1978)

References

  1. ^ Mel Gibson's Father Has Local Home, Church
  2. ^ Mel Gibson's Father Buys Home in West Virginia
  3. ^ Heinen, Tom (May 23 2004). "Words of Mel's dad find a home". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. ^ Giambalvo, Corrado (2004-02-20). "Gibson's father: Holocaust was mostly 'fiction'". USA Today.
  5. ^ "Why Gibson's film provokes Passions". BBC News. August 26 2003. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ^ Giambalvo, Corrado (2004-02-20). "Gibson's father: Holocaust was mostly 'fiction'". USA Today.
  7. ^ Mel Gibson's Meltdown; Christopher Hitchens; Slate; July 31 2006
  8. ^ a b c Partial Transcript Of The Steve Feuerstein Radio Interview With Hutton Gibson; Movie City News; March 3 2004 Cite error: The named reference "FeuersteinTranscript1" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  9. ^ Halbfinger, David (December 7 2005). "Mel Gibson Developing Holocaust Mini-Series". The New York Times. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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