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Is Mel Building A Cult Compound???

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What exactly is Mel Gibson building in the hills above Malibu?

These pictures show the ongoing construction of Mel's Church of the Holy Family on a huge super secure property in Agoura Hills. But this isn't some small little family chapel in the country.

Check out some of the deets:

  • 17 acres of land
  • nearly 10,000 square-foot church
  • residential facilities on church grounds could potentially accommodate parishioners
  • 24-hour guards and video surveillance
  • funded by Gibson's A.P. Reilly Foundation with an endowment of $42 million!!!

The nearly 10,000 square foot church and adjacent chapel will be the home base for Mel's church which practices an ultra-conservative form of Catholicism. Known as traditionalist Catholics, church members attend mass conducted in Latin and deny the Pope's legitimacy as the leader of the Catholic religion.

While the church reportedly has only about 70 members, the expanded facility could accommodate several hundred. Reached via a long winding driveway, complete with 24 hour guards and video surveillance, the compound also includes housing.

The Spanish style buildings are reportedly meant to resemble a California mission. It is believed that missionaries once considered building on the site.

It's not clear just how much all this cost, but it's being paid for by the A.P Reilly Foundation, which Mel Gibson funds entirely. (A.P Reilly is Gibson's late mother) According to the Foundation's 2007 tax returns, it has more than $42 million dollars in assets.

A call to the Foundation got us nowhere ... the receptionist claims no one in the Foundation's office "knows anything about Mel Gibson's church."

And oddly enough, the Church of the Holy Family doesn't seem to be listed ...



If this is just an average church, why all the secrecy?

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Posted by: Love ya, Mel from Orlando Florida

Of course it's not going to be listed, it's not completed yet (duh)



Posted by: Anonymous

HOW DID YOU GET THE PICTURES ON THE PROPERY,,,TRESPASSED AGAIN,POSING AS A CONSTRUCTION WORKER ????



Posted by: Anonymous

It is obviously a CHURCH, and Mr. Gibson values his privacy. Respect it.



Posted by: Anonymous

God for him. I would want to be protected from all the fags and negros in CA.



Posted by: Team Valtrex

Mel is bangin' hot and has a fantastic bod I could just eat him up!



Posted by: kiki

mel is the best and i love his church. he is doing well with it. so leave him alone and let him do what he has to do in his life.



Posted by: Anonymous

IDIOTS! He's trying to keep X17 paparazzi out! Nice try guys, but I think you're Persona Non Gratis. As in... F OFF.



Posted by: Anonymous

is it ok to divorce for traditional catholics? i dont think so



Posted by: Anonymous

he is just megalomaniac



Posted by: Anonymous

he is just megalomaniac



Posted by: Anonymous

like all the cult leaders



Posted by: Anonymous

it is scary. Is anybody here a member?



Posted by: Anonymous

2:27 If that's the case, there's a quite a few compounds in Utah that would protect you from all outsiders. Why might I ask would you need protection from blacks & gays?



Posted by: Anonymous

Oh yeh right, like the residents of Agoura Hills/Malibu want a bunch of non-english speaking illegals, with their circus music, frightful color coordination, polluting vehicles and such hanging out in this area!! Just another cult hiding behind religion!! When will it ever stop?



Posted by: Anonymous

An ultra conservative adulterer. Right. What a hypocrite.



Posted by: Anonymous

Everyone needs protection from disease spreading gays and gang banging, drug dealing negros.



Posted by: marie

An ultra-catholic who cheats on his wife. Ironic...I wonder if his russian gf is also ultra-catholic..



Posted by: Anonymous

Wow , God doesn't expect people to be perfect in order to believe ,

it's his money and his property ,what he does with it is his business , how this site minds it's own business for once lol ,

just an idea lmao



Posted by: J R Koffer

Is the person who wrote this headline a paedophile?

What kind of sensationalist garbage do you people resort to in the name of getting yourself noticed?

The church is getting bigger because more people wanted to attend. Security guards? Naturally! Try getting close to madonna or anyone with this sort of fame. It's only a couple of years ago that some one was imprisoned for stalking Mel at his church. But hey, security guards in Mel's case = cult!

He's not using your money, so who gives a crap? And the acreage.... ooh, 17 acres... it has cult written all over that land size. You guys are pathetic!

There's an awful lotta judging going on here.



Posted by: Anonymous

Hey, maybe those weapons of mass destruction got moved there. spread it around. It's as close to the truth as anything else you folks publish!



Posted by: Anonymous

Don't worry folks; Mel is not the antichrist, but if he's donating money to a building he owns; the R.I.S. should look into that.



Posted by: Anonymous

Mel has good intentions, I hope he is successful in his spiritual life. I pray that he really believes in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.



Posted by: Anonymous

The only thing I like about Latin is the women, they are sexy and beautiful.



Posted by: Anonymous

Mel Gibson is the man!



Posted by: wrong on both sides

6:09 pm You are a coward conservative, keep hiding.



Posted by: shari

ANONYMOUS, have you ever consider suing your brain for non-support?



Posted by: samantha kendrick

he is without a doubt one of the most vulgar common cheap uneducated just plain 'fick creature his spawn of a male spurted.
old hat has been.
i remember him i'm gonna make a movie that will hurt the jews.
you really didn't have to your mind set is enough.
she deserves way more than a billion.



Posted by: Al

If anyone published such tripe about a Jew, the author would be lynched as an "antisemitic conspiracy nut," but anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable bigotry so you can hold forth with such nonsense.



Posted by: Anonymous

I agree with you Al. When do you hear people apologizing for spewing hatred against Catholics?
Jesus melt our hearts!







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