{"id":27839,"date":"2013-02-12T05:30:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T09:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/should-a-pope-resign-his-offic\/"},"modified":"2013-02-12T05:30:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T09:30:11","slug":"should-a-pope-resign-his-offic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/should-a-pope-resign-his-offic\/","title":{"rendered":"Should a pope resign his office?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">In his book-length interview with Peter Seewald, <i>Light of the World<\/i>, Pope Benedict responded to Seewald&#8217;s question as to whether a pope should resign saying, &#8220;Yes. If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(50, 51, 51); \"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.0px\">And, now Benedict has done it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book-length interview with Peter Seewald, Light of the World, Pope Benedict responded to Seewald&#8217;s question as to whether a pope should resign saying, &#8220;Yes. If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/should-a-pope-resign-his-offic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Should a pope resign his office?<\/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":[7],"tags":[2577,3096,3244,32081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27839"}],"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=27839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}