{"id":25922,"date":"2011-04-29T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_popes_beatification_stirs_excitement_and_dissension\/"},"modified":"2011-04-29T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T15:00:28","slug":"a_popes_beatification_stirs_excitement_and_dissension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25922","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times) A Pope\u2019s Beatification Stirs Excitement and Dissension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> On a sunny afternoon this week, St. Peter\u2019s Square was abuzz with life. Crowds lined up at the metal detectors. Tourists snapped photos. A workman was spraying down the travertine steps to the basilica. And inside, red cloth screens cordoned off a side chapel that will soon draw as many visitors as Michelangelo\u2019s Piet\u00c3\u00a0 nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Sunday, that chapel is where the entombed remains of Pope John Paul II will be on view for public veneration \u201d\u201d after Pope Benedict XVI presides over the biggest spectacle since his own installation in 2005: a beatification Mass that will move his adored predecessor a step closer to sainthood.<\/p>\n<p>The beatification is widely seen as a way not just to honor John Paul but to energize the Roman Catholic Church. Yet, like John Paul\u2019s 26-year papacy itself, it has become intensely polarizing&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/29\/world\/europe\/29vatican.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a sunny afternoon this week, St. Peter\u2019s Square was abuzz with life. Crowds lined up at the metal detectors. Tourists snapped photos. A workman was spraying down the travertine steps to the basilica. And inside, red cloth screens cordoned<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25922\">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":[48,39,50,42,186,168,200,119,154,177,449,636,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-church-history","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-globalization","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-poland","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25922","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=25922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}