{"id":4491218,"date":"2023-03-31T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/news\/why-russell-crowe-wanted-to-play-the-popes-exorcist-7-30\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T02:00:26","slug":"why-russell-crowe-wanted-to-play-the-popes-exorcist-7-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/news\/why-russell-crowe-wanted-to-play-the-popes-exorcist-7-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Russell Crowe wanted to play the Pope’s exorcist | 7.30"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Russell Crowe wanted to play the Pope&#039;s exorcist | 7.30\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b5wnN70c2EE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<p>ABC News (Australia) published this video item, entitled “Why Russell Crowe wanted to play the Pope’s exorcist | 7.30” – below is their description.<\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Vatican’s most famous exorcist, Father Gabriele Amorth, claimed to have performed thousands of exorcisms before his death in 2016. Russell Crowe plays Amorth in his new film The Pope’s Exorcist, based on the late father’s diaries. Exorcism is still performed in the Catholic Church, with Australian priests travelling to Rome to learn the ancient rites. Sarah Ferguson interviews Russell Crowe – and a warning that this interview contains excerpts from the film.<\/p><cite>ABC News (Australia) YouTube Channel<\/cite><\/blockquote><p>Got a comment? Leave your thoughts in the comments section, below. Please note comments are moderated before publication.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News (Australia) published this video … <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Why Russell Crowe wanted to play the Pope’s exorcist | 7.30\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/news\/why-russell-crowe-wanted-to-play-the-popes-exorcist-7-30\/#more-4491218\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why Russell Crowe wanted to play the Pope’s exorcist | 7.30\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":4491221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[169,1827,3557,6208,4021,291,11515,4020],"news-source":[15150],"acf":[],"class_list":["post-4491218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-catholic","tag-church","tag-father","tag-pope","tag-rome","tag-russell-crowe","tag-vatican","news-source-abc-news-australia"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4491218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4491221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4491218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4491218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4491218"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=4491218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}