According to Wensley Clarkson's biography of Mel Gibson, Gibson studied for the priesthood in a Chicago seminary of the Society of the Divine Word but left because he did not want to be sent to New Guinea or the Philippines as a missionary.
According to Wensley Clarkson's biography of Mel Gibson, Gibson studied for the priesthood in a Chicago seminary of the Society of the Divine Word but left disgusted with the modernist theological doctrines taught there. However, in 2003 Gibson stated that his actual reason for leaving was because he did not want to be sent to New Guinea or the Philippines as a missionary.