{"id":13020,"date":"2009-05-26T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/benedict_prays_for_peace_at_site_of_wwii_battle\/"},"modified":"2009-05-26T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:01:31","slug":"benedict_prays_for_peace_at_site_of_wwii_battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13020","title":{"rendered":"Benedict prays for peace at site of WWII battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI paid homage Sunday to the victims of World War II, visiting a Polish military cemetery at the site of a decisive battle in southern Italy and praying that peace may prevail over war today.<\/p>\n<p>Benedict, who was forced to join the Hitler Youth as a child in Germany, made a pilgrimage to the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino, which was leveled during a 1944 Allied bombardment and was the site of a bloody ground battle between German and Allied forces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this place, where so many lost their lives &#8230; we pray especially for the souls of the fallen, commending them to God&#8217;s infinite mercy, and we pray for an end to the wars that continue to afflict our world,&#8221; Benedict said in English at the end of Mass celebrated at the foot of the monastery in the city of Cassino.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2009-05-24-pope-peace_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI paid homage Sunday to the victims of World War II, visiting a Polish military cemetery at the site of a decisive battle in southern Italy and praying that peace may prevail over war today. Benedict, who was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13020\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,154,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}