{"id":59974,"date":"2015-11-21T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=59974"},"modified":"2015-11-19T11:47:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T18:47:47","slug":"benedict-and-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/21\/benedict-and-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Benedict and Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Pope Benedict XVI fan. I wasn&#8217;t always. In fact, I was dead set against Cardinal Ratzinger becoming Pope. However, when I started to read the writings of the man I discovered a loving, shy academic <a href=\"http:\/\/shamelesspopery.com\/how-ratzinger-reacted-to-becoming-pope-benedict\/\" target=\"_blank\">who never wanted to be Pope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot I love about Pope Francis too, not least of which is <a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/my-great-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\">his connection to the Eastern Church<\/a>.\u00a0However, I have to admit I get really irritated when I hear Pope Benedict negatively contrasted to his successor. Pope Francis is an extrovert, Benedict is not, so it&#8217;s inevitable that their styles will be different. However, where it counts&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Benedict-and-Francis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59976\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Benedict-and-Francis.jpg\" alt=\"Benedict and Francis\" width=\"625\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Benedict-and-Francis.jpg 625w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Benedict-and-Francis-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Benedict-and-Francis-600x691.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a Pope Benedict XVI fan. I wasn&#8217;t always. In fact, I was dead set against Cardinal Ratzinger becoming Pope. However, when I started to read the writings of the man I discovered a loving, shy academic who never wanted to be Pope. There&#8217;s a lot I love about Pope Francis too, not least of which is his connection to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3453,335,659,2094],"class_list":["post-59974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-cardinal-ratzinger","tag-papacy","tag-pope-benedict","tag-pope-francis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59977,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59974\/revisions\/59977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}