{"id":43140,"date":"2022-12-07T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2022\/12\/07\/life-is-beautiful-director-to-pope-st-francis-married-poverty-wife-of-christ\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T18:02:00","slug":"life-is-beautiful-director-to-pope-st-francis-married-poverty-wife-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2022\/12\/07\/life-is-beautiful-director-to-pope-st-francis-married-poverty-wife-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"'Life is Beautiful' director to Pope: \u201cSt. Francis married poverty, wife of Christ\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>-This is Francis! It's Francis! This is the most beautiful moment. The most joyful. The brightest. Look at the light he radiates.<br \/>\n-Don't exaggerate. Come on, don't exaggerate.<br \/>\n-How can I not exaggerate?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis met with Italian actor and director, Roberto Benigni.<\/p>\n<p><em>-I am honored by your visit.<br \/>\n-I'm honored that you're seeing me. I must tell you that my wife, Nicoletta, says hello.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cLife is Beautiful\u201d director presented his poetic monologue about St. Francis of Assisi, called il Cantico, to the Pope.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>-Forgive my lack of humility. But this is just me making a show about St. Francis. And I say a show because his life is a show. You know it well. You are a Jesuit, but your name is Francis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The comedian and Pope also discussed the life of St. Francis.<\/p>\n<p><em>-He imitated Jesus like no one else.<br \/>\n-I would say so.<br \/>\n-Right?<br \/>\n-Yes, I'm saying that. In fact, he marries poverty\u2014Jesus' wife\u2014who had been a widow for a thousand years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis gave Benigni one of his books and a medal celebrating the ninth year of his pontificate. After their meeting, the two said goodbye with an embrace.<\/p>\n<p><em>-All my best, Holiness. We're praying for you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>RM<\/p>\n<p>TR: MG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 7, 2022. The director of the Italian film, \u201cLife is Beautiful,\u201d presented his poetic monologue about St. Francis of Assisi, called il Cantico, to Pope Francis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3TLuCDuA6Wg","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapabenignieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpapabenigniint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}