{"id":15161,"date":"2009-09-25T01:37:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T01:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_of_canterbury_delighted_at_pope_benedict_xvi_visit_to_britain\/"},"modified":"2009-09-25T01:37:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T01:37:46","slug":"archbishop_of_canterbury_delighted_at_pope_benedict_xvi_visit_to_britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15161","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop of Canterbury &#39;delighted&#39; at Pope Benedict XVI visit to Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Williams, who yesterday was visiting the Anglican Church in Japan, welcome the news that the pope is set to visit, the first visit in almost 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some time ago, following similar invitations from Roman Catholic bishops and the British Government, I personally expressed my hope to Pope Benedict that he would accept the invitation to visit Britain,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am therefore delighted to hear that there is every possibility that the Pope may indeed visit Britain in the course of the next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure I speak on behalf of Anglicans throughout Britain, in assuring him that he would be received with great warmth and joy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/6224584\/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-delighted-at-Pope-Benedict-XVI-visit-to-Britain.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Williams, who yesterday was visiting the Anglican Church in Japan, welcome the news that the pope is set to visit, the first visit in almost 30 years. &#8220;Some time ago, following similar invitations from Roman Catholic bishops and the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15161\">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":[36,39,50,42,67,158,199,154,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-ecumenical-relations","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161","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=15161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}