{"id":1270,"date":"2006-06-09T23:47:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T23:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/don-matteo.html"},"modified":"2006-06-09T23:47:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T23:47:14","slug":"don-matteo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/don-matteo.html","title":{"rendered":"Don Matteo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rome Reports is worth watching – <\/a>it’s a 30 minute weekly program on, well, global Catholic news. It’s shown on EWTN a couple of times a week (Fridays from 11-11:30 pm Eastern, I’m thinking, since I just watched it), but it’s a European-based operation. Tonight, the program was all over the map – a couple of stories from China, one about Iraq, the completed repair of the Assisi basilica, the Russian Orthodox in Rome…and Don Matteo.<\/p>\n

Who’s Don Matteo? Well no one except Church n’ Pop Culture junkies will be interested – it’s apparently a very popular show on Italian television about a crime-solving priest  in Gubbio – garners very high ratings. That interested me, but what also caught my eye was that the actor playing Don Matteo is \"Cast_donmatteo4\"<\/a> Terrence Hill, well-known for his starring roles in many Spaghetti Westerns including the "Trinity" movies.<\/a> Here’s the season 5 episode list, with links to clips.<\/a> I have no idea how church matters or priesthood are treated in the series, but I was intrigued. The anti-Father Ted? <\/em>Or just his crime-fighting Italian cousin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rome Reports is worth watching – it’s a 30 minute weekly program on, well, global Catholic news. It’s shown on EWTN a couple of times a week (Fridays from 11-11:30 pm Eastern, I’m thinking, since I just watched it), but it’s a European-based operation. 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