{"id":3099,"date":"2013-10-04T19:07:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T23:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/?p=3099"},"modified":"2013-10-04T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T23:07:35","slug":"pope-francis-read-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/uncategorized\/pope-francis-read-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Pope Francis read my blog post?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, hey, so guess what? I&#8217;m not the only one who has <a href=\"https:\/\/notstrictlyspiritual.com\/2013\/09\/losing-my-religion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issues with bad homilies<\/a>. Turns out Pope Francis feels the same way. And he gets applause when he talks about it! Have I mentioned yet today &#8212; this hour &#8212; that I love our pope? Yeah, I thought so. Check out what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNS<\/a> tweeted today about Pope Francis&#8217; comment on this very same issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PopeFrancis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PopeFrancis<\/a> gets lots of applause when talks about homilies that are &quot;interminable, boring, where you don&#39;t understand a word&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Catholic News Service (@CatholicNewsSvc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CatholicNewsSvc\/status\/386125033912811520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, hey, so guess what? I&#8217;m not the only one who has issues with bad homilies. Turns out Pope Francis feels the same way. 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