{"id":8678,"date":"2002-09-13T16:14:03","date_gmt":"2002-09-13T21:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/09\/13\/mel-gibson-an-ultra-traditionalist\/"},"modified":"2002-09-13T16:14:03","modified_gmt":"2002-09-13T21:14:03","slug":"mel-gibson-an-ultra-traditionalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/09\/mel-gibson-an-ultra-traditionalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Gibson an ultra-traditionalist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8230;Actor Mel Gibson, a staunchly orthodox Roman Catholic<br \/>\nwho will play Christ in an upcoming movie, says the Vatican is a &#8220;wolf in<br \/>\nsheep&#8217;s clothing&#8221; and that he doesn&#8217;t believe in the present-day Church as an<br \/>\ninstitution.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8230;&#8221;My love for religion was transmitted to me by my<br \/>\nfather,&#8221; he told the newspaper. &#8220;But I do not believe in the Church as an<br \/>\ninstitution.&#8221; Gibson said he has a private chapel at his home in Malibu, Calif.,<br \/>\nat which mass is celebrated every Sunday in Latin.<\/p>\n<p><\/font>I hope the<br \/>\nabove interview by an Italian newspaper is incorrect but if his next movie is<br \/>\ncalled &#8220;Smoke of Satan&#8221; we will know for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Actor Mel Gibson, a staunchly orthodox Roman Catholic who will play Christ in an upcoming movie, says the Vatican is a &#8220;wolf in sheep&#8217;s clothing&#8221; and that he doesn&#8217;t believe&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-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}