{"id":439,"date":"2005-04-01T17:29:53","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T01:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/giornale\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&amp;articleId=276&amp;blogId=1"},"modified":"2005-04-01T17:29:53","modified_gmt":"2005-04-02T01:29:53","slug":"the-pope-near-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/01\/the-pope-near-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope near death."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should really finish reading &#039;Angels and Demons&#039;! They talk about the conclave there, the chamberlain (carmalengo), etc. Of course, it&#039;s all fiction, but the &#039;selection&#039; of the next Pope is discussed there.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnyway, back to reality: It&#039;s kinda nice how they&#039;re offering tributes to the Pope. He didn&#039;t just affect the Catholics of the world, but other religions as well. Outside of the church, he&#039;s seen as an ambassador to peace. He&#039;s attributed to helping topple the Berlin wall and ending Communism in Russia. I also heard about this Jewish woman who was moved to tears as she meditated and prayed for a Roman Catholic pope. They also talked about his humour (see pic below).<\/p>\n<p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/images\/papaGiovanniPaoloII.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should really finish reading &#039;Angels and Demons&#039;! They talk about the conclave there, the chamberlain (carmalengo), etc. Of course, it&#039;s all fiction, but the &#039;selection&#039; of the next Pope is discussed there.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, back to reality: It&#039;s kinda nice how they&#039;re offering tributes to the Pope. He didn&#039;t just affect the Catholics of the world,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2005\/04\/01\/the-pope-near-death\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}