{"id":27724,"date":"2013-05-14T10:29:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/a-working-cardinal-omalley-rea\/"},"modified":"2013-05-14T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:29:22","slug":"a-working-cardinal-omalley-rea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/a-working-cardinal-omalley-rea\/","title":{"rendered":"A working cardinal: O&#8217;Malley really does work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Cardinal%20O%27Malley%20mowing%20the%20lawn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cardinal O'Malley mowing the lawn.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/05\/Cardinal O'Malley mowing the lawn-thumb-285x391-14399.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"391\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Boston&#8217;s Cardinal does outdoor work.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>From being a candidate in some people&#8217;s eyes for the Petrine ministry to doing menial tasks, Sean Cardinal O&#8217;Malley gives good example.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One can only guess what the papacy would be like today had O&#8217;Malley been elected. It makes no sense to speculate, and yet one wonders.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I doubt one can say that the estimation he enjoys is due to this kind gesture, but I do think it helps. Cardinal O&#8217;Malley knows that hard work means getting his hands dirty and collaborating with others.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Work gives dignity to man&#8217;s life; it gives to joy to the heart seeing a task completed as well as can be.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>On this feast of Saint Matthias, may his intercession before God give us more bishops like this one.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Saints Matthias and Francis, pray for us.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston&#8217;s Cardinal does outdoor work. From being a candidate in some people&#8217;s eyes for the Petrine ministry to doing menial tasks, Sean Cardinal O&#8217;Malley gives good example. One can only guess what the papacy would be like today had O&#8217;Malley been elected. It makes no sense to speculate, and yet one wonders. I doubt one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/a-working-cardinal-omalley-rea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A working cardinal: O&#8217;Malley really does work<\/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":[16],"tags":[2615,2617],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27724"}],"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=27724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}