{"id":27572,"date":"2013-03-19T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T23:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/a-focus-on-mission-pope-franci\/"},"modified":"2013-03-19T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T23:58:04","slug":"a-focus-on-mission-pope-franci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/a-focus-on-mission-pope-franci\/","title":{"rendered":"A focus on mission, Pope Francis points to direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block; float: left; width: 171px; \"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27340278@N03\/8562364096\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8368\/8562364096_6785418f17_m.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis met with media\" width=\"161\" height=\"240\" class=\"zemanta-img-configured\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\">Pope Francis met with media<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Pope Francis will be too different from the last several Roman Pontiffs. As bishop of Rome he will preach and teach, govern and sanctify.The Pope&#8217;s un-programatic homily is in fact programatic if you can read the details. In some ways Francis&#8217;s homily is an Aesopian creature.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>First, style is substance. Second, the liturgical preaching thus far indicates a trajectory. Third, focus on the Pope&#8217;s connection with people of belief and unbelief because this connection ought to be assessed for the facts and and not clich&eacute;. What the Pope said and what he&#8217;s done matters. Who&#8217;s present, and who&#8217;s not. (And this data is not to be reduced to politics.) All this is to say that you can&#8217;t miss &#8220;a trick&#8221; if you really want to know what and who Pope Francis is, and why he is doing what he&#8217;s doing and with whom.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We are living nothing different from what Blessed John Paul and Pope Benedict did in their pontificates. Three things to pray for daily: conversion, vocation and mission.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A &#8220;news&#8221; man and priest whom I respect very much is the editor-in-chief for AsiaNews.it, <i>Bernardo Cervellera<\/i>. Tonight, his article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.it\/news-en\/Like-Benedict,-mission-is-Pope-Francis's-focus-27439.html\">Like Benedict, mission is Pope Francis&#8217;s focus<\/a>,&#8221; captures what I am indicating and what I am urging you to attend.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Want to be informed about Christianity, and the global Church of Christ, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianews.it\">AsiaNews.it<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=13bfab6e-ecbe-4935-8705-618ea4f8e99d\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" style=\"border:none;float:right\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis met with media I don&#8217;t think Pope Francis will be too different from the last several Roman Pontiffs. As bishop of Rome he will preach and teach, govern and sanctify.The Pope&#8217;s un-programatic homily is in fact programatic if you can read the details. In some ways Francis&#8217;s homily is an Aesopian creature. First, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/03\/a-focus-on-mission-pope-franci\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A focus on mission, Pope Francis points to direction<\/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":[38,62,7,84],"tags":[3140,1749,2949,32081,32107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27572"}],"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=27572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}