{"id":37245,"date":"2013-02-11T17:20:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_message_from_the_archbishop_of_canterbury_on_pope_benedicts_resignation\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T17:20:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T17:20:54","slug":"a_message_from_the_archbishop_of_canterbury_on_pope_benedicts_resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37245","title":{"rendered":"A Message from the Archbishop of Canterbury on Pope Benedict&#39;s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was with a heavy heart but complete understanding that we learned this morning of Pope Benedict\u2019s declaration of his decision to lay down the burden of ministry as Bishop of Rome, an office which he has held with great dignity, insight and courage. As I prepare to take up office I speak not only for myself, and my predecessors as Archbishop, but for Anglicans around the world, in giving thanks to God for a priestly life utterly dedicated, in word and deed, in prayer and in costly service, to following Christ. He has laid before us something of the meaning of the Petrine ministry of building up the people of God to full maturity&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicancommunion.org\/acns\/news.cfm\/2013\/2\/11\/ACNS5313\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was with a heavy heart but complete understanding that we learned this morning of Pope Benedict\u2019s declaration of his decision to lay down the burden of ministry as Bishop of Rome, an office which he has held with great<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37245\">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":[36,42,382,67,158,154,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-ecumenical-relations","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37245","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=37245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}