{"id":2746,"date":"2020-01-15T15:43:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T20:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2020-01-15T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T20:44:43","slug":"pope-francis-to-the-city-rome-and-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/pope-francis-to-the-city-rome-and-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis to the City (Rome) and the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/files\/2020\/01\/HF-1.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2754\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/files\/2020\/01\/HF-1-222x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At Christmas each year the Pope leads the faithful in prayer and proclaims a message \u201cUrbi et Orbi\u201d (to the City and the World).<\/p>\n<p>Now that we have entered the year 2020 with hope, the grim realities of the past year were placed by Pope Francis in a context of prayer and an earnest search for peace.<\/p>\n<p>I wish to share <a href=\"http:\/\/press.vatican.va\/content\/salastampa\/en\/bollettino\/pubblico\/2019\/12\/25\/191225b.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this message<\/a> in case some have not read it. Among the \u201ctrouble spots\u201d in various continents, we think of the Middle East and pray for peace among all nations so that ordinary people will find tranquility and order as a sign of hope, pointing to the angelic prayer for peace among all beneficiaries of God\u2019s good will (Luke 2:14).<\/p>\n<p>The paragraph on African nations is especially poignant with reference to Christians who have been kidnapped by extremist groups.\u00a0 May those who have been snatched from schools over several years and recently from the seminary of Kaduna diocese be returned safely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Christmas each year the Pope leads the faithful in prayer and proclaims a message \u201cUrbi et Orbi\u201d (to the City and the World). Now that we have entered the year 2020 with hope, the grim realities of the past &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/pope-francis-to-the-city-rome-and-the-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2760,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/lawrencefrizzell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}