{"id":7650,"date":"2004-03-24T07:16:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T07:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/the_passion_priest.html"},"modified":"2004-03-24T07:16:16","modified_gmt":"2004-03-24T07:16:16","slug":"the_passion_priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/the_passion_priest.html","title":{"rendered":"The Passion Priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/cgi-bin\/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&amp;ArticleId=511572\">A Telegraph article on the priest who said Mass on the set of TPOTC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very interesting &#8211; the fellow has high family connections among intellectual, aristocratic Old Europe. But it was this passage that I found the most memorable:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking at his home near the Roman-era Caracalla Baths &#8211; a room in the College of the Rosminian Fathers, a congregation founded in the 19th century &#8211; Charles-Roux recalled his discussions with the director: &#8220;I told him there, look here, in the meat trade you have two professions: the butcher and the person who makes the meat edible. You are the butcher and I make it edible at the altar. His reply was that that was exactly what he wanted to do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s one way to look at it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Telegraph article on the priest who said Mass on the set of TPOTC Very interesting &#8211; the fellow has high family connections among intellectual, aristocratic Old Europe. 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