{"id":1413,"date":"2013-02-18T08:19:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2013-02-18T08:19:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:19:02","slug":"after-retirement-pope-will-live-hidden-from-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/02\/18\/after-retirement-pope-will-live-hidden-from-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"After retirement, Pope will live &#8220;hidden from the world&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Pope is retiring on February 28 and has big plans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Addressing church leaders for one of the last times of his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday (Feb. 14) that he intends to live \u201chidden from the world\u201d after he retires on Feb. 28.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, he has an aid that will &#8220;assist his successor&#8221; so some are predicting he&#8217;ll continue to &#8220;exert influence on the papacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Vatican\u2019s top spokesman said Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the pope\u2019s former personal secretary, will remain in his current role as head of the papal household after the election of Benedict\u2019s successor. He will live by Benedict\u2019s side in a small convent within the Vatican walls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Benedict&#8217;s successor selection will begin 15 &#8211; 20 days after the Pope resigns.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Thursday, the 85-year old pontiff said he would remain \u201chidden from the world\u201d after retirement, confirming his Monday resignation announcement that spoke of \u201ca life dedicated to prayer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/02\/14\/benedict-intends-to-live-hidden-from-the-world\/\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Pope is retiring on February 28 and has big plans. Addressing church leaders for one of the last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}