{"id":27357,"date":"2011-07-20T03:39:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T03:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_allen-meet_the_new_crown_prince_of_catholicism\/"},"modified":"2011-07-20T03:39:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T03:39:18","slug":"john_allen-meet_the_new_crown_prince_of_catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27357","title":{"rendered":"John Allen&#8211;Meet the new Crown Prince of Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 28, Pope Benedict XVI named the 69-year-old Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo Scola, as the new Archbishop of Milan.<\/p>\n<p>At one level, it\u2019s tempting to read this as a lateral move. Venice actually produced three popes in the 20th century (Pius X, John XXIII, and John Paul I) to Milan\u2019s two (Pius XI and Paul VI), so it\u2019s not like Scola\u2019s transfer to the See of Ambrose lifts him out of obscurity. Among insiders, he was already considered an ecclesial heavyweight and top-tier future prospect&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Milan isn\u2019t just a job &#8212; it\u2019s a unique vote of papal confidence, and a platform for global leadership. Church-watchers usually assume that when a pope sends someone to Milan, he\u2019s pointing him out as a possible successor. Benedict XVI is no na\u00c3\u00aff; he\u2019s aware of that calculus, which means that at a minimum, he has enough confidence in Scola to put him in a place where the papacy is a live possibility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/all-things-catholic\/meet-new-crown-prince-catholicism\">Read it all (from the long queue of should-have-already-been-posted material)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 28, Pope Benedict XVI named the 69-year-old Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo Scola, as the new Archbishop of Milan. At one level, it\u2019s tempting to read this as a lateral move. Venice actually produced three popes in the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27357\">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":[39,50,42,200,448,154,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-italy","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\/27357","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=27357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}