{"id":25951,"date":"2011-05-01T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_pope_benedict_beatifies_pope_john_paul_because_of_his_faith\/"},"modified":"2011-05-01T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T22:00:20","slug":"cns_pope_benedict_beatifies_pope_john_paul_because_of_his_faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25951","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Pope Benedict beatifies Pope John Paul &#39;because of his faith&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;John Paul II is blessed because of his faith &#8212; a strong, generous and apostolic faith,&#8221; Pope Benedict XVI said May 1 just minutes after formally beatifying his predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Italian police said that for the Mass more than 1 million people were gathered in and around the Vatican and in front of large video screens in several parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Many in the crowd had personal stories about seeing Pope John Paul or even meeting him, and Pope Benedict ended his homily at the Mass sharing his own personal story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1101725.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;John Paul II is blessed because of his faith &#8212; a strong, generous and apostolic faith,&#8221; Pope Benedict XVI said May 1 just minutes after formally beatifying his predecessor. Italian police said that for the Mass more than 1 million<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25951\">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":[48,39,50,42,186,200,133,154,449,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25951","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-europe","category-history","category-other-churches","category-poland","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25951","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=25951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}