{"id":50571,"date":"2015-06-30T17:15:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/historic_meeting_between_pope_francis_and_russian_orthodox_head_getting_clo\/"},"modified":"2015-06-30T17:15:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:15:27","slug":"historic_meeting_between_pope_francis_and_russian_orthodox_head_getting_clo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50571","title":{"rendered":"(Independent) Historic meeting between Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox head &#39;getting closer&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is &#8220;getting closer every day,&#8221; a senior Orthodox prelate said in an interview published on 28 June.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented meeting would be a significant step towards healing the 1,000-year-old rift between the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, which split in the Great Schism of 1054.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now such a meeting is getting closer every day but it must be well prepared,&#8221; Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church&#8217;s foreign relations department, said in an interview with Italy&#8217;s Corriere della Sera newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/historic-meeting-between-pope-francis-and-russian-orthodox-head-getting-closer-10352898.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is &#8220;getting closer every day,&#8221; a senior Orthodox prelate said in an interview published on 28 June. The unprecedented meeting would be a significant step towards<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50571\">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":[42,172,158,418,154,637,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ecclesiology","category-ecumenical-relations","category-orthodox-church","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50571","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=50571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}