{"id":44942,"date":"2014-07-05T18:50:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T18:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/monastic_life_could_make_surprise_comeback_in_age_of_twitter_says_a_pope_fr\/"},"modified":"2014-07-05T18:50:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T18:50:33","slug":"monastic_life_could_make_surprise_comeback_in_age_of_twitter_says_a_pope_fr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44942","title":{"rendered":"Monastic life could make surprise comeback in age of Twitter, says a Pope Francis aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monasticism could make an unlikely comeback because of pace of life in the age of Twitter, a leading aide to Pope Francis has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of the Vatican\u2019s evangelism department, said the constant presence of modern communications could make the ancient idea of a life of contemplation more attractive to people in the 21st Century than in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop was speaking as he arrived in Birmingham to join hundreds of young British Roman Catholics considering a call to a life as monks, nuns or priests at a weekend retreat to explore their vocation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10947493\/Monastic-life-could-make-surprise-comeback-in-age-of-Twitter-Pope-Francis-aide.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monasticism could make an unlikely comeback because of pace of life in the age of Twitter, a leading aide to Pope Francis has suggested. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, head of the Vatican\u2019s evangelism department, said the constant presence of modern communications<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44942\">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":[48,39,42,154,108,364,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44942","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=44942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}