{"id":109594,"date":"2025-05-08T23:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=109594"},"modified":"2025-05-08T23:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:38:39","slug":"pope-leo-xiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/pope-leo-xiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>oday the Cardinal Electors, guided by the Holy Spirit, elected <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_Leo_XIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost<\/a> to the Chair of Saint Peter. He has chosen the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/pope\/news\/2025-05\/cardinal-elected-pope-papal-name.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Leo XIV<\/a>, perhaps in homage to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_Leo_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pope Leo the Great<\/a>, or perhaps to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pope_Leo_XIII\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pope Leo XIII<\/a>, author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rerum_novarum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rerum Novarum<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Francine and I watched from her hospital room. Although quite ill, she was very much engaged with the moment. This is her seventh Pope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ad multos annos!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" data-attachment-id=\"109593\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/pope-leo-xiv\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Pope-Leo-XIV.jpg?fit=400%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Pope Leo XIV\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Pope-Leo-XIV.jpg?fit=400%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Pope-Leo-XIV.jpg?resize=400%2C500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-109593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Pope-Leo-XIV.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Pope-Leo-XIV.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Pope-Leo-XIV.jpg?resize=120%2C150&amp;ssl=1 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Cardinal Electors, guided by the Holy Spirit, elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost to the Chair of Saint Peter. He has chosen the name of Leo XIV, perhaps in homage to Pope Leo the Great, or perhaps to Pope Leo XIII, author of Rerum Novarum. Francine and I watched from her hospital room. Although quite ill, she was very [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moments-in-time","category-pope-leo-xiv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Pope-Leo-XIV.jpg?fit=400%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-svE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":109753,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/our-lady-queen-of-heaven-pray-for-peace\/","url_meta":{"origin":109594,"position":0},"title":"Our Lady, Queen of Heaven, Pray for Peace!","author":"Thom","date":"22 August 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"the Octave day of the Assumption, is the Memorial of Our Lady Queen of Heaven. 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The following duties... concern rich men and employers: Workers are not to be treated\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Church and State&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Church and State","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/church-and-state\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Pope Leo XIII","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Leo-XIII-240x285.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":38,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/flash-flash-flash-flash-flash-flash-flash\/","url_meta":{"origin":109594,"position":4},"title":"FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH","author":"Thom","date":"27 June 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"[T]he motu proprio liberating the Tridentine Mass for the entire Catholic Church has been given to about 30 bishops from all over the world in the Sala Bologna of the Apostolic Palace by Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone.The bishops had been invited to Rome for that purpose. 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