{"id":8467,"date":"2008-09-15T17:51:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T17:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pope_hails_love_stronger_than_evil_at_lourdes_mass\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T17:51:23","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T17:51:23","slug":"pope_hails_love_stronger_than_evil_at_lourdes_mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8467","title":{"rendered":"Pope hails love &#39;stronger than evil&#39; at Lourdes mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI urged more than 150,000 followers at mass Sunday in the French shrine town of Lourdes to hold firm in their faith, telling them &#8220;love is stronger than evil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 81-year-old pontiff celebrated an open-air mass to mark the 150th anniversary of what Roman Catholics believe were the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a French peasant girl.<\/p>\n<p>Under clear skies, the pontiff spoke from a white podium set up on a sprawling field near the grotto where the Madonna is said to have appeared 18 times to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858.<\/p>\n<p>The pope urged the faithful to adhere to the teachings of Mary that &#8220;tell us that there is a love in this world that is stronger than death, stronger than our weaknesses and sins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The power of love is stronger than the evil which threatens us,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=080914145231.o8xu75uc&#038;show_article=1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI urged more than 150,000 followers at mass Sunday in the French shrine town of Lourdes to hold firm in their faith, telling them &#8220;love is stronger than evil.&#8221; The 81-year-old pontiff celebrated an open-air mass to mark<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8467\">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":[50,42,200,468,154,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-france","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467","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=8467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}