{"id":1278,"date":"2013-02-27T20:52:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2013-03-07T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T06:18:12","slug":"in-gratitude-for-pope-benedict-xvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/archives\/1278","title":{"rendered":"In Gratitude for Pope Benedict XVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1279\" alt=\"benedict16\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/benedict16-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/benedict16-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/benedict16.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>By now, we\u2019ve certainly heard the news that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Pope Benedict is resigning his ministry as successor of Peter and head of the Roman Catholic Church<\/span> as of February 28, 2013. Benedict, born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, is the 265th Pope, and began his papacy on April 19, 2005. Given that no Pope has resigned in six hundred years, <!--more-->this caught the Church \u2013 and the world at large \u2013 by surprise. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Following his resignation, he intends to dedicate himself to a life of prayer and study in a monastery in Rome<\/span>. We are grateful to God for Pope Benedict XVI through whose instrumentality the Church was wisely governed and led after the heart of Christ. May God bless him with choicest blessings and grant him good health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By now, we\u2019ve certainly heard the news that Pope Benedict is resigning his ministry as successor of Peter and head of the Roman Catholic Church as of February 28, 2013. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parish-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.catholic.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}