{"id":2769,"date":"2013-03-30T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2769"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:43:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:43:21","slug":"peggy-noonan-pope-franics-his-combination-of-tradition-and-compassion-may-be-just-what-the-church-ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2769","title":{"rendered":"Peggy Noonan: Pope Francis, &#8220;His combination of tradition and compassion may be just what the church needs.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good column. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324685104578388891273902244.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h\" target=\"_self\">Noonan: Pope Francis Looks Outward <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&quot;If you take over a company your question is: &#39;Can I get people<br \/>\naligned together on a mission instead of going in different directions?<br \/>\nCan I pull people together in a fundamental mission?&#39; &quot; He thinks some<br \/>\nof the pope&#39;s &quot;personal behaviors and example, which have been so<br \/>\nwinning,&quot; might help bridge divisions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That may happen. Francis so far seems to embody the best hopes of<br \/>\nboth sides\u2014for tradition but open for action, for the truth and for the<br \/>\npoor. He may come to remind people that they have more in common than<br \/>\nperhaps they understood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good column. Noonan: Pope Francis Looks Outward &quot;If you take over a company your question is: &#39;Can I get people aligned together on a mission instead of going in different directions? Can I pull people together in a fundamental mission?&#39; &quot; He thinks some of the pope&#39;s &quot;personal behaviors and example, which have been so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8511,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/8511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}