{"id":61495,"date":"2013-12-25T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=61495"},"modified":"2013-12-25T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-25T12:03:15","slug":"open-your-hearts-to-fellow-man-pope-francis-addresses-thousands-at-st-peters-basilica-in-first-christmas-eve-mass-since-becoming-leader-of-the-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=61495","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Open your hearts to fellow man&#8217;: Pope Francis addresses thousands at St Peter&#8217;s Basilica in first Christmas Eve Mass since becoming leader of the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis rang in his first Christmas at the Vatican with a Christmas Eve Mass preaching a message of love and forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>He called on the throngs gathered at St. Peter&#8217;s Basilica on Tuesday to cast aside hatred.<\/p>\n<p>The festivities began on Saturday, with the Pope&#8217;s Christmas message to the Curia. He urged the church&#8217;s governing body to avoid gossip and to focus on service.<\/p>\n<p>And then he practiced what he preached, spending three hours at a local hospital bringing Christmas cheer to sick children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis rang in his first Christmas at the Vatican with a Christmas Eve Mass&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61495","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\/61495","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=61495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}