{"id":41956,"date":"2014-01-07T19:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_pope_francis_gives_catholic_church_a_gentle_revolution\/"},"modified":"2014-01-07T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:00:26","slug":"bbc_pope_francis_gives_catholic_church_a_gentle_revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41956","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Pope Francis gives Catholic Church a gentle revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just nine months Pope Francis has almost trebled the size of crowds attending papal audiences, Masses and other events in Vatican City.<\/p>\n<p>Before 13 March last year, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was expecting to spend his next Christmas in retirement &#8211; in an old people&#8217;s home in the Buenos Aires district of Flores, where he was born 77 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But now he carries the hopes and fears of more than a billion Roman Catholics.<\/p>\n<p>What explains this suddenly renewed interest in Catholicism? What need is Pope Francis meeting in people?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-25466403\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just nine months Pope Francis has almost trebled the size of crowds attending papal audiences, Masses and other events in Vatican City. Before 13 March last year, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was expecting to spend his next Christmas in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41956\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41956","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=41956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}