{"id":85108,"date":"2015-04-17T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T21:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=85108"},"modified":"2016-03-08T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T20:04:11","slug":"francis-cardinal-george-1937-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/francis-cardinal-george-1937-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Cardinal George (1937 – 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history.<\/p>\n

Francis Cardinal George, OMI
Archbishop of Chicago<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Cardinal-George-Interesting-Man\"<\/a><\/p>\n

C<\/span>ardinal George, Archbishop Emeritus of Chicago, died today<\/a> of cancer. He was 78.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot you could say about Cardinal George, and I have no doubt that the Catholic blogoshpere is melting down with information even as we speak. <\/p>\n

Here are just a few:<\/p>\n

Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n

National Catholic Register<\/a><\/p>\n

Archdiocese of Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n

Requiem \u00e6ternam dona eis, Domine
\nEt lux perpetua luceat eis:
\nRequiescant in pace. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison and his successor will die a martyr in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history. Francis Cardinal George, OMIArchbishop of Chicago Cardinal George, Archbishop Emeritus of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85109,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moments-in-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Cardinal-George-Interesting-Man-e1429298042231.jpg?fit=404%2C722&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-m8I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3031,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/congratulations-to-fr-barron\/","url_meta":{"origin":85108,"position":0},"title":"Congratulations Fr. 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