{"id":8040,"date":"2025-04-06T23:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pope-francis-makes-surprise-appearance-at-st-peters-square-2-weeks-after-leaving-hospital\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T23:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T23:21:42","slug":"pope-francis-makes-surprise-appearance-at-st-peters-square-2-weeks-after-leaving-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/pope-francis-makes-surprise-appearance-at-st-peters-square-2-weeks-after-leaving-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis makes surprise appearance at St. Peter\u2019s Square 2 weeks after leaving hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis made a surprise appearance at St. Peter&rsquo;s Square on Sunday, two weeks after he finished a recent hospital stay. Vatican News reported that official appearances were not on the Pope&rsquo;s schedule for Sunday, but he went to St. Peter&rsquo;s Square at the end of a Mass centered on health care workers and sick&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5234909-pope-francis-makes-surprise-appearance-at-st-peters-square-2-weeks-after-leaving-hospital\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis made a surprise appearance at St. Peter&rsquo;s Square on Sunday, two weeks after he finished a recent hospital stay. Vatican News reported that official appearances were not on the Pope&rsquo;s schedule for Sunday, but he went to St. Peter&rsquo;s Square at the end of a Mass centered on health care workers and sick&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}