{"id":5880,"date":"2005-06-02T18:25:38","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T23:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/06\/02\/hands-on-homilies\/"},"modified":"2005-06-02T18:25:38","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T23:25:38","slug":"hands-on-homilies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/06\/hands-on-homilies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands-on Homilies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">VATICAN CITY &#8211; No ghostwriter needed here. By most accounts, Pope Benedict XVI has been busy writing his own speeches as he grows into his new role as pastor of the world&#8217;s Roman Catholics.<\/p>\n<p>That hands-on approach by the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was a theology lecturer at German universities before becoming a<\/p>\n<p>Vatican insider, sharply contrasts with his predecessor, John Paul II, who gave so many speeches he needed an assembly line of wordsmiths to produce them. [<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20050602\/ap_on_re_eu\/vatican_the_wordsmith_2\">Source<\/a>] [Via  &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/thomasfortoday.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/pope-benedicts-speeches.html\">Open wide the doors to Christ!<\/a>&quot;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Well that is interesting. I would have thought based on yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwnews.com\/news\/viewstory.cfm?recnum=37505\">beautiful reflection<\/a> that &quot;Mary&#8217;s visitation to her cousin Elizabeth was in a certain sense the first Eucharistic procession in history&quot; that his speeches were ghostwritten. Holy Ghostwritten that is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Speaking of the Holy Spirit, The Anchoress again has a great post. This one called <a href=\"http:\/\/theanchoressonline.com\/2005\/06\/02\/the-holy-spirit-stirs-then-ravishes\/\">The Holy Spirit stirs, then ravishes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY &#8211; No ghostwriter needed here. By most accounts, Pope Benedict XVI has been busy writing his own speeches as he grows into his new role as pastor of&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-5880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}