{"id":18722,"date":"2013-03-24T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T20:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=18722"},"modified":"2016-11-10T21:47:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T03:47:22","slug":"two-popes-two-palm-sundays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/24\/two-popes-two-palm-sundays\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Popes, Two Palm Sundays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/03\/two-popes-two-palm-sundays\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Deacon&#8217;s Bench<\/a><\/em> notes &#8220;an interesting study in contrasts&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/files\/2013\/03\/benedict-palm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"benedict palm\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/files\/2013\/03\/benedict-palm-575x383.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/files\/2013\/03\/li-palm-sunday-04191901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"li-palm-sunday-04191901\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/files\/2013\/03\/li-palm-sunday-04191901-575x323.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2013\/03\/two-popes-two-palm-sundays\/\" target=\"_blank\">there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Deacon&#8217;s Bench<\/i> notes &#8220;an interesting study in contrasts&#8221;:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[28,2224],"tags":[1906,2229,2212,3010,3021,1041],"class_list":["post-18722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-pope-francis","tag-palm-sunday","tag-papal-liturgy","tag-papal-transition","tag-pope-benedict-xvi","tag-pope-francis","tag-the-deacons-bench"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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