{"id":21238,"date":"2010-08-12T17:40:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T17:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dean_of_westminster_abbey-it_is_good_that_the_pope_is_coming\/"},"modified":"2010-08-12T17:40:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T17:40:35","slug":"dean_of_westminster_abbey-it_is_good_that_the_pope_is_coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21238","title":{"rendered":"Dean of Westminster Abbey&#8211;\u201d\u02dcIt is good that the Pope is coming\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Catholic Herald question]: <b>What do you feel is the significance of the Pope visiting Westminster Abbey in particular, rather than another prominent Anglican place of worship such as St Paul\u2019s?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In 1982, Pope John Paul II of course came to Canterbury and so he met the Archbishop of Canterbury there. That was a very significant and important occasion.<\/p>\n<p>That was a pastoral visit. This is a state visit, so he\u2019s coming partly as head of state, as well as head of the Roman Catholic Church, and every head of state is invited to come and lay a wreath at the grave of the unknown warrior.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/features\/2010\/08\/12\/%E2%80%98it-is-good-that-the-pope-is-coming%E2%80%99\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Catholic Herald question]: What do you feel is the significance of the Pope visiting Westminster Abbey in particular, rather than another prominent Anglican place of worship such as St Paul\u2019s? In 1982, Pope John Paul II of course came to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21238\">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":[36,48,39,50,42,74,389,199,154,184,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21238","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=21238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}