{"id":30649,"date":"2014-04-03T08:22:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T12:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30649"},"modified":"2014-04-03T11:08:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T15:08:13","slug":"qeii-meets-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/qeii-meets-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"QEII meets Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/QE2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30650 alignleft\" alt=\"QE2\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/QE2-202x300.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/QE2-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/QE2-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/QE2.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>Queen Elizabeth II, 87, with Prince Philip, 92 is today in Rome fulfilling an invitation she had to reschedule in 2013 due to ill health. Last year the Queen was to meet Italy&#8217;s President Giorgio\u00a0Napolitano. Her one day visit to Rome brings her to a private lunch at the presidential Quirinale Palace with\u00a0the Italian President and then to have tea with Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<div>Her Majesty has meet several Roman Pontiffs, the last in 2010 when Pope Benedict made a pastoral visit the United Kingdom. She has met with popes since John XXIII with the exception of Paul VI.\u00a0As the British monarch she is able to say she knew two saints: John and John Paul.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>One wonders if the Queen and the Pope are meeting as sovereigns or as religious leaders. Elizabeth is the Supreme Governor of the Church of England. Likely a little of both.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen Elizabeth II, 87, with Prince Philip, 92 is today in Rome fulfilling an invitation she had to reschedule in 2013 due to ill health. Last year the Queen was to meet Italy&#8217;s President Giorgio\u00a0Napolitano. Her one day visit to Rome brings her to a private lunch at the presidential Quirinale Palace with\u00a0the Italian President &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/04\/qeii-meets-francis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">QEII meets Francis<\/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":[39],"tags":[32107,2520],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30649"}],"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=30649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30664,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30649\/revisions\/30664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}