{"id":6268,"date":"2026-04-21T00:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/reading-pope-francis-a-year-later\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:15:35","slug":"reading-pope-francis-a-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/reading-pope-francis-a-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Pope Francis a Year Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?e=CCELI6666166427&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>(RNS) \u2014 A year after his death, the Catholic Church is moving forward \u2014 and revealing what Francis actually changed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While he was alive, Francis\u2019 papacy was interpreted in real time: praised, criticized and debated. It was difficult to separate what was truly changing from what simply felt different because of him.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Church moves forward, and this movement offers something new \u2014 a chance to see what was durable.<\/p>\n<p>What still feels like Francis? What has been absorbed into the Church\u2019s way of operating? And what, if anything, has already begun to fade?<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, we step back from the moment-to-moment reactions and take a first real look at Pope Francis in hindsight. Not to revisit his papacy, but to understand it differently \u2014 through what we can now see.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2026\/04\/20\/what-stuck-reading-pope-francis-a-year-later\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(RNS) \u2014 A year after his death, the Catholic Church is moving forward \u2014 and revealing what Francis actually changed. While he was alive, Francis\u2019 papacy was interpreted in real time: praised, criticized and debated. It was difficult to separate what was truly changing from what simply felt different because of him. Now, the Church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}