{"id":26280,"date":"2011-02-24T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/cardinal-john-p-foley-retires\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:22:22","slug":"cardinal-john-p-foley-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/cardinal-john-p-foley-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal John P. Foley retires to the USA due to illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/institutions_connected\/oessh\/oessh-biografia_foley_en.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px; FLOAT: left\" class=\"mt-image-left\" alt=\"John Patrick Foley, cardinal &amp; grand master.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/02\/John%20Patrick%20Foley,%20cardinal%20&amp;%20grand%20master-thumb-200x299-8685.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" \/>John Patrick Cardinal Foley<\/a>, 75, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem retired from his work in Rome due to the&nbsp;illnesses of luekemia and anemia. He returned to his native Philadephia. His return to the USA was swift after submitting a letter of resignation to the Cardinal Secretary of State on February 8 and meeting with His Holiness, Pope Benedict on February 10; he was home on the 12th.<\/p>\n<p>Foley is the former editor of the Phildelphia Catholic newspaper <em>The Catholic Standard &amp; Times<\/em> and the former President of the Pontifical Council of Social Communications. The Cardinal held his position at the Holy See for 23 years.<\/p>\n<p>His Eminence freely admits his physical diminishment but is facing his illness with courage and with Christ at the center. His diagnosis&nbsp;was&nbsp;received in September 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholictranscript.org\/home\/international-news\/1843-ailing-cardinal-foley-resigns-knights-post-retires-to-philadelphia.html\">CNS story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Patrick Cardinal Foley, 75, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem retired from his work in Rome due to the&nbsp;illnesses of luekemia and anemia. He returned to his native Philadephia. His return to the USA was swift after submitting a letter of resignation to the Cardinal Secretary of State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/02\/cardinal-john-p-foley-retires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cardinal John P. Foley retires to the USA due to illness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[2015,2689,2690],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}