{"id":73630,"date":"2025-02-04T18:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T23:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=73630"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:37:14","slug":"what-padre-pio-said-about-tv-and-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/what-padre-pio-said-about-tv-and-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"What Padre Pio Said About TV And Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Padre Pio said about TV, according to <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookstore.spiritdaily.com\/products\/br-padre-pio-the-true-story-c-bernard-ruffin?_pos=2&amp;_sid=f378f3fad&amp;_ss=r\">Padre Pio: The True Story<\/a><\/span>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>St. Padre Pio rarely watched the friary&#8217;s television set.<\/p>\n<p>By the mid-1950s, the friary had its television room, but no one ever remembered Padre Pio darkening the door, except for an event such as the funeral of Pope Pius XII, and then only for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Padre Pio&#8217;s dislike of television was primarily based on its ability to distract families.<\/p>\n<p>Padre Pio, in fact, believed television a pernicious invention that corrupted morals and destroyed family life, and he strongly discouraged people from acquiring televisions. He told Joe Peterson, \u201cThe man who invented refrigeration went to Heaven, but the man who invented television &#8230;\u201d He pointed downward.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, &#8220;Instead of talking to one another, he pointed out, family members spent their evenings staring at the set.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When it came to movies,\u00a0Padre Pio had a very negative reaction,\u00a0reportedly saying,\u00a0&#8220;The devil is in the cinema.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookstore.spiritdaily.com\/products\/br-padre-pio-the-true-story-c-bernard-ruffin?_pos=2&#038;_sid=f378f3fad&#038;_ss=r\">Padre Pio: The True Story &#8211; C. Bernard Ruffin<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1738692656\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"What Padre Pio Said About TV And Movies\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Padre Pio said about TV, according to Padre Pio: The True Story: St. Padre Pio rarely watched the friary&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}