{"id":4906,"date":"2012-12-31T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T11:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/pope-marks-end-of-difficult-year-notes-god-s-good\/"},"modified":"2012-12-31T11:01:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T11:01:52","slug":"pope-marks-end-of-difficult-year-notes-god-s-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/pope-marks-end-of-difficult-year-notes-god-s-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Marks End of Difficult Year, Notes God&#8217;s Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Pope Benedict XVI has marked the end of a difficult year by saying that despite all the death and injustice in the world, goodness prevails.}}<\/p>\n<p>Benedict celebrated New Year&#8217;s Eve with a vespers service Monday in St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica to give thanks for 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In his homily, Benedict said it&#8217;s tough to remember that goodness prevails when bad news \u2014 deaths, violence and injustice \u2014 &#8220;makes more noise than good.&#8221; He said taking time to meditate in prolonged reflection and prayer can help &#8220;find healing from the inevitable wounds of daily life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This past year was full of highs and lows for the pope, including a successful trip to Mexico and Cuba but also the betrayal of his butler, convicted of stealing Benedict&#8217;s personal papers and leaking them to a journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Pope Benedict XVI has marked the end of a difficult year by saying that despite all the death and injustice in the world, goodness prevails.}} Benedict celebrated New Year&#8217;s Eve with a vespers service Monday in St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica to give thanks for 2012. In his homily, Benedict said it&#8217;s tough to remember that goodness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4906"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4906"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}