{"id":6680,"date":"2004-09-13T08:45:16","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T13:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/09\/13\/archdiocese-of-chicago-to-be-consecrated-to-mary%ef%bf%bds-immaculate-heart\/"},"modified":"2004-09-13T08:45:16","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T13:45:16","slug":"archdiocese-of-chicago-to-be-consecrated-to-mary%ef%bf%bds-immaculate-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/09\/archdiocese-of-chicago-to-be-consecrated-to-mary%ef%bf%bds-immaculate-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Archdiocese of Chicago to be consecrated to Mary\ufffds Immaculate Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">On December 8, 2004 &#8211; the 150th anniversary of Pope Pius IX&#8217;s solemn proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception &#8211; Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, will consecrate the Archdiocese to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The consecration will take place at Holy Name Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">In the August 15, 2004 edition of the Catholic New World, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Chicago, George wrote that &#8220;the auxiliary bishops and I have put together a preliminary plan [to prepare for the consecration]. It moves from catechesis to prayer to consecration&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Rev. Charles Becker, a priest of the Archdiocese who directs a series of Marian prayer groups in the greater Chicagoland area, is excited about the upcoming consecration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;We need the protection and direction of the Blessed Mother in these tumultuous times,&#8221; says Becker. &#8220;I&#8217;m very glad the Cardinal has decided to do this.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/featured\/headline.php?ID=1325\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 8, 2004 &#8211; the 150th anniversary of Pope Pius IX&#8217;s solemn proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception &#8211; Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}