{"id":41443,"date":"2018-04-01T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T12:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=41443"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:29:14","slug":"pope-of-surprises-goes-traditional-for-urbi-et-orbi-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/01\/pope-of-surprises-goes-traditional-for-urbi-et-orbi-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope of Surprises Goes Traditional for <i>Urbi et Orbi<\/i> Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pope of surprises did it again &#8211; but this time in a direction untypical of his pontificate thus far.<\/p>\n<p>For the traditional blessing\u00a0<em>urbi et orbi<\/em> &#8211; &#8220;to the city and to the world&#8221; &#8211; Pope Francis appeared on the loggia of St. Peter&#8217;s wearing on his head the tiara which even his more traditional predecessors have renounced. 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Until today.<\/p>\n<p>In his address this morning, the pope prayed for an end to the bloody war in Syria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/01\/pope-of-surprises-goes-traditional-for-urbi-et-orbi-blessing\/francis-tiara-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41445\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41445\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Francis-Tiara-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiara was given by the President of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":41448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3119,93,2224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-plaza-new-ws","category-humor","category-pope-francis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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