{"id":42758,"date":"2014-02-24T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/boston_globe_john_allen-cardinal_picks_embody_principles_of_pope_of_the_po\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:00:23","slug":"boston_globe_john_allen-cardinal_picks_embody_principles_of_pope_of_the_po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42758","title":{"rendered":"(Boston Globe) John Allen&#8211;Cardinal picks embody principles of \u201d\u02dcPope of the Poor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francis presided over a consistory on Saturday, the event in which a pope creates new cardinals, surrounded by almost 200 other cardinals as well as his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI. (It was the first time new cardinals have been created in the presence of two popes.) The 19 new princes of the church included churchmen from Haiti, Burkina Faso, and Ivory Coast, all three among the world\u2019s most desperate societies.<\/p>\n<p>In Haiti, the pope bypassed the leaders of the country\u2019s two archdioceses, who according to the usual logic would have had better claim to the honor, in order to tap the bishop of a small diocese in the country\u2019s southwest, a man who was himself born into a poor family.<\/p>\n<p>In effect, Francis seemed to want his first consistory to embrace the \u201cperiphery\u201d\u009d in every possible sense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/news\/world\/2014\/02\/22\/for-pope-poor-personnel-policy\/7zTcybJqRgtTwyUjiMi4PL\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis presided over a consistory on Saturday, the event in which a pope creates new cardinals, surrounded by almost 200 other cardinals as well as his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI. (It was the first time new cardinals have been created<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42758\">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":[39,42,119,154,637,88,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-globalization","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-poverty","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42758","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=42758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}