{"id":77060,"date":"2019-12-26T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T10:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=77060"},"modified":"2019-12-26T10:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T10:50:16","slug":"pope-francis-kicks-off-christmas-celebrations-with-midnight-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pope-francis-kicks-off-christmas-celebrations-with-midnight-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis kicks off Christmas celebrations with midnight Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pope Francis ushered in Christmas celebrations for the world\u2019s 1.3 billion Catholics on Tuesday, saying the celebration of Jesus\u2019s birth reminded humanity how \u201cGod continues to love us all, even the worst of us\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pontiff told crowds gathered at the Vatican for his Christmas Eve Mass: \u201cYou may have mistaken ideas, you may have made a complete mess of things, but the Lord continues to love you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands of Palestinians and foreigners converged on the \u201clittle town\u201d in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with Christmas Eve festivities taking place in and around the Church of the Nativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Middle East\u2019s seniormost Roman Catholic, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, arrived from Jerusalem at the head of a procession.Pizzaballa, who had to cross Israel\u2019s separation barrier to get to Bethlehem, said after his arrival that it was a difficult time but there was reason for hope.\u201cWe see in this period the weakness of politics, enormous economic problems, unemployment, problems in families,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis ushered in Christmas celebrations for the world\u2019s 1.3 billion Catholics on Tuesday, saying the celebration of Jesus\u2019s birth reminded humanity how \u201cGod continues to love us all, even the worst of us\u201d. The pontiff told crowds gathered at the Vatican for his Christmas Eve Mass: \u201cYou may have mistaken ideas, you may have [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77062,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77060\/revisions\/77062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}