{"id":54038,"date":"2013-03-24T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T19:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=54038"},"modified":"2013-03-24T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T19:53:20","slug":"a-pair-of-popes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-pair-of-popes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pair of Popes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now here’s something you don’t see every day: two popes chatting.<\/p>\n

\"Pope<\/a>

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI meets with Pope Francis<\/p><\/div>\n

Y<\/span>esterday, the two Popes – the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Pope Francis now gloriously reigning – met for lunch at Castel Gandolfo. They went to pray together in the private chapel there, and<\/p>\n

\"Popes<\/a><\/p>\n

\n…the Pope emeritus offered the place of honor to Pope Francis, but he said: “We are brothers,” and wanted them to kneel together in the same pew. <\/p>\n

(source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So they prayed side by side, while the Papal chair and kneeler in front of the altar remained empty.<\/p>\n

The two then met for about an hour or so before Pope Francis returned to the Vatican. One can only imagine what the two men discussed.<\/p>\n