{"id":26813,"date":"2012-01-16T09:06:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/cardinal-francis-eugene-george\/"},"modified":"2012-01-16T09:06:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:06:29","slug":"cardinal-francis-eugene-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/cardinal-francis-eugene-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Francis Eugene George, OMI, turns 75, submits resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Cardinal%20George%20OMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cardinal George OMI.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/01\/Cardinal George OMI-thumb-180x240-10879.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Today is Cardinal Francis Eugene George&#8217;s 75th birthday. Congrats and continued blessings!!!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His Eminence is this nation&#8217;s highest profiled cardinal and bishop who is a superb public thinker as well as a pastor of souls. Since 1997 he&#8217;s been the <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.archdiocese-chgo.org\/\" title=\"Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago\" rel=\"homepage\">archbishop of Chicago<\/a> and since 1998 he&#8217;s been a member of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/College_of_Cardinals\" title=\"College of Cardinals\" rel=\"wikipedia\">College of Cardinals<\/a>. Both positions were given to him by Blessed &nbsp;Pope John Paul II.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The 1983 <i>Code of Canon Law<\/i> says of a bishop who reaches his 75th birthday:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\">\n<div>A diocesan bishop who has completed the seventy-fifth year of age <u>is requested to present<\/u> from office to the Supreme Pontiff, who will make provision after he has examined all the circumstances (401).<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Chicago Tribune ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/ct-met-cardinal-george-resignation-0116-20120116,0,1428971.story\">this article today<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pray for Cardinal George and for the Archdiocese of Chicago.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=f3381019-e454-4fdc-8337-68681fac2732\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" style=\"border:none;float:right\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Cardinal Francis Eugene George&#8217;s 75th birthday. Congrats and continued blessings!!! His Eminence is this nation&#8217;s highest profiled cardinal and bishop who is a superb public thinker as well as a pastor of souls. Since 1997 he&#8217;s been the archbishop of Chicago and since 1998 he&#8217;s been a member of the College of Cardinals. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/cardinal-francis-eugene-george\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cardinal Francis Eugene George, OMI, turns 75, submits resignation<\/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":[2015,2201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813"}],"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=26813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}