{"id":4282,"date":"2006-11-30T22:29:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T22:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:21:32","slug":"the_pope_and_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4282","title":{"rendered":"The Pope and the Patriarch of Constantinople"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a good posting on the weblog of a Catholic journalist about the &quot;Fraternal Encounter&quot; of Pope Benedict and the Ecumenical Patriarch of&nbsp; Constantinople, Bartholomew I. The photos alone are worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/fratres-in-unum.html\">Whispers in the Loggia: Fratres in Unum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From their joint declaration:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>This fraternal encounter which brings us together, Pope Benedict XVI of Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, is God\u2019s work, and in a certain sense his gift. We give thanks to the Author of all that is good, who allows us once again, in prayer and in dialogue, to express the joy we feel as brothers and to renew our commitment to move towards full communion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a good posting on the weblog of a Catholic journalist about the &quot;Fraternal Encounter&quot; of Pope Benedict and the Ecumenical Patriarch of&nbsp; Constantinople, Bartholomew I. The photos alone are worth a look. Whispers in the Loggia: Fratres in Unum From their joint declaration: This fraternal encounter which brings us together, Pope Benedict XVI of [&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-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","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=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14487,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions\/14487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}