{"id":76,"date":"2005-04-20T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=76"},"modified":"2005-04-20T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T17:06:00","slug":"habemus-papam-bonum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Habemus Papam Bonum."},"content":{"rendered":"

I admit, my first reaction to the announcment of our new Pope was one of confusion. Part of that confusion was simply that I had been so certain that this was the last man who could be elected Pope, so I didn’t really have any reaction ready. And part of it, I realize now, was that I’ve listened far too much to mainstream media that I should know better than to trust.<\/p>\n

But now that I’m getting used to saying “Pope Benedict,” I feel even optimistic. People like Patrick O’Hannigan of The Paragraph Farmer<\/a> have helped. He recently listed the reactions of a number of other people to the announcement, and I think the list is worth sharing. <\/p>\n

We do have a good<\/i> new Pope. I am disappointed in myself for having expressed any ambiguity on the subject.<\/p>\n

We are indeed fortunate to be in the midst of a run of good leaders. God has been good to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I admit, my first reaction to the announcment of our new Pope was one of confusion. Part of that confusion was simply that I had been so certain that this was the last man who could be elected Pope, so I didn’t really have any reaction ready. And part of it, I realize now, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelsundae.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}