{"id":7211,"date":"2004-03-20T10:16:30","date_gmt":"2004-03-20T15:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/03\/20\/pop-star-priest-has-mass-appeal\/"},"modified":"2004-03-20T10:16:30","modified_gmt":"2004-03-20T15:16:30","slug":"pop-star-priest-has-mass-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/03\/pop-star-priest-has-mass-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop star priest has Mass appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil &#8212; He&#8217;s had a No. 1 record, won a Latin Grammy and now has a hit movie &#8212; all aimed at revitalizing the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">He is the Rev. Marcelo Rossi, Brazil&#8217;s pop star priest, a leader of the Brazilian church&#8217;s efforts to bolster its waning appeal in the world&#8217;s largest Catholic country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;The majority of Catholics are estranged from the church. So &#8212; this was the promise I made to the pope &#8212; I promised to use all means of communication available to bring them back to the Church,&#8221; Rossi said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Rossi&#8217;s latest foray into mass media evangelism is a Portuguese-language feature film, &#8220;Mary, Mother of the Son of God.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The film tells the story of Mary, with Rossi as parish priest recounting the role of Jesus&#8217; mother in biblical events to a little girl in Brazil&#8217;s poor northeast; the child imagines her townspeople as scriptural characters (Rossi is also the angel Gabriel). <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The movie has been seen by 2.5 million viewers &#8212; an impressive figure for a Brazilian film.<br \/> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklandtribune.com\/Stories\/0,1413,82~1726~2030775,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/marcelorossi.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"217\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil &#8212; He&#8217;s had a No. 1 record, won a Latin Grammy and now has a hit movie &#8212; all aimed at revitalizing the Roman Catholic Church&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}