{"id":18577,"date":"2010-03-17T01:52:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T01:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_pope_to_visit_england_scotland_in_september-562\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T01:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T01:52:31","slug":"ap_pope_to_visit_england_scotland_in_september-562","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18577","title":{"rendered":"AP: Pope to visit England, Scotland in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI will visit Scotland and England in September in a four-day visit combining preaching and diplomacy, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>British officials described it as an unprecedented &#8220;papal visit with the status of a state visit,&#8221; though some of the usual trappings laid on for a visiting head of state will not be offered to the pope. An earlier visit by Pope John Paul II in 1982 was a pastoral visit only.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit Benedict plans to conduct a public mass in Glasgow&#8217;s Bellahouston Park, where some 300,000 people swarmed a mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II during his pastoral visit in 1982. John Paul&#8217;s visit was strictly to visit his flock \u201d\u201d rather than as a head of a state. John Paul was not received by the queen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h0uijtt_WEcBmJCpPLloJpQIwVQwD9EFQBA81\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI will visit Scotland and England in September in a four-day visit combining preaching and diplomacy, Buckingham Palace announced Tuesday. British officials described it as an unprecedented &#8220;papal visit with the status of a state visit,&#8221; though some<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18577\">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":[39,50,42,199,154,636,108,364,326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18577","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=18577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}