{"id":55914,"date":"2016-10-07T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_archbishop_welby_and_pope_francis_share_signs_of_beautiful_fra\/"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:30:32","slug":"church_times_archbishop_welby_and_pope_francis_share_signs_of_beautiful_fra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55914","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Archbishop Welby and Pope Francis share \u201d\u02dcsigns of beautiful fraternity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury spent two days in Rome this week, accompanied by 17 leaders from other Anglican Provinces worldwide, as well as pairs of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops who discussed ways of forging closer partnerships in mission.<\/p>\n<p>At an audience in the Vatican on Thursday, Pope Francis said that it was \u201ca beautiful sign of fraternity\u201d\u009d to see the Primates of so many Anglican Provinces celebrating the fruits of the first meeting 50 years ago between his predecessor Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us never grow tired of asking the Lord together and insistently for the gift of unity,\u201d\u009d the Pope said. All church leaders were being challenged to go out and bring God\u2019s \u201cmerciful love to a world thirsting for peace\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2016\/7-october\/news\/world\/archbishop-welby-and-pope-francis-share-signs-of-beautiful-fraternity\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury spent two days in Rome this week, accompanied by 17 leaders from other Anglican Provinces worldwide, as well as pairs of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops who discussed ways of forging closer partnerships in mission. At<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55914\">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":[36,42,382,67,158,154,637,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-ecumenical-relations","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55914","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=55914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}