{"id":10032,"date":"2013-05-21T19:02:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=10032"},"modified":"2013-05-21T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:02:22","slug":"the-pope-and-the-devil-is-francis-an-exorcist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=10032","title":{"rendered":"The Pope and the Devil: Is Francis an Exorcist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is Pope Francis an exorcist?<\/p>\n<p>The question has been swirling ever since Francis laid his hands Sunday on the head of a young man after celebrating Mass in St. Peter&#8217;s Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, convulsed and shook, and then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him.<\/p>\n<p>The television station of the Italian bishops&#8217; conference said it had surveyed exorcists, who agreed that Francis either performed an exorcism or a prayer to free the man from the devil.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican was more cautious Tuesday, saying Francis &#8220;didn&#8217;t intend to perform any exorcism. But as he often does for the sick or suffering, he simply intended to pray for someone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Pope Francis an exorcist? The question has been swirling ever since Francis laid his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}