{"id":37738,"date":"2013-04-09T21:10:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T21:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nc_reporter_john_allen-pope_francis_gets_his_oxygen_from_the_slums\/"},"modified":"2013-04-09T21:10:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T21:10:49","slug":"nc_reporter_john_allen-pope_francis_gets_his_oxygen_from_the_slums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37738","title":{"rendered":"(NC Reporter) John Allen&#8211;Pope Francis gets his &#39;oxygen&#39; from the slums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Argentina, they say that if you want to understand the priestly soul of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, then you have to know the villas miserias, literally &#8220;villas of misery,&#8221; meaning the slums in Buenos Aires where the poorest of the poor are found.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fr. Juan Isasmendi, who lives and works in one of the villas, this is where the future Pope Francis filled his lungs with the &#8220;oxygen&#8221; he needed to think about what the church ought to be.<\/p>\n<p>There are roughly 20 of these slums in Buenos Aires, often just a block or so away from gleaming high-rise office towers and luxury apartment buildings. Bergoglio&#8217;s pastoral revolution was to hand-pick a cadre of especially strong, dedicated priests not just to visit the villas but to live and work here, sharing the lives of the people down to the last detail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/francis-gets-his-oxygen-slums\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Argentina, they say that if you want to understand the priestly soul of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, then you have to know the villas miserias, literally &#8220;villas of misery,&#8221; meaning the slums in Buenos Aires where the poorest of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37738\">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":[50,42,607,154,637,364,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-argentina","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-roman-catholic","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37738","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=37738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}