Rich, Frank (3 August 2003). "Mel Gibson's Martyrdom Complex". Mr. Nierob said The New York Times was a low priority because The Times Magazine had run an inaccurate article in March in which Hutton Gibson, Mel Gibson's father and a prominent traditionalist Catholic author, was quoted as saying that the Vatican Council was a Masonic plot backed by the Jews and that the Holocaust was a charade. But in fact, neither Hutton nor Mel Gibson -- nor anyone else -- has contacted the magazine to challenge the accuracy of a single sentence in the article in the four months since its publication.