{"id":19088,"date":"2013-03-28T17:59:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19088"},"modified":"2013-03-28T17:59:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T21:59:07","slug":"i-think-i-like-the-new-pope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-think-i-like-the-new-pope\/","title":{"rendered":"I think I like the new Pope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19089\" alt=\"Pope-Feet\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Pope-Feet.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"258\" \/>There is a knack in doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2300490\/Pope-Francis-kisses-washes-feet-young-offenders-Rome-prison.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">this kind of thing<\/a> unpretentiously and the Pope seems to have it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of dozens of young prisoners in a Holy Thursday ritual in a gesture of &#8216;love and service&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He continued a tradition he began as archbishop of Buenoes Aires by holding a Mass in the Casal del Marmo facility in Rome, where 46 young men and women currently are detained.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the 12 were young women, a remarkable choice given that the rite re-enacts Jesus&#8217; washing of the feet of his male disciples.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This is a symbol, it is a sign -washing your feet means I am at your service,&#8217; Francis told the youngsters. &#8216;Help one another. This is what Jesus teaches us. This is what I do. And I do it with my heart. I do this with my heart because it is my duty, as a priest and bishop I must be at your service.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a knack in doing this kind of thing unpretentiously and the Pope seems to have it: Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of dozens of young prisoners in a Holy Thursday ritual in a gesture of &#8216;love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-think-i-like-the-new-pope\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[1241],"class_list":["post-19088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pope","tag-pope-francis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}