{"id":38540,"date":"2015-01-15T21:38:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=38540"},"modified":"2015-02-01T10:56:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T02:56:03","slug":"vatican-aides-tell-pope-you-havent-seen-anything-yet-wait-till-you-get-to-the-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/15\/vatican-aides-tell-pope-you-havent-seen-anything-yet-wait-till-you-get-to-the-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican aides tell Pope: \u2018You haven\u2019t seen anything yet; wait till you get to the PH\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38533\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-ph-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38533\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-ph-4-1024x364.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Francis has disembarked the Sri Lankan airbus and was welcomed by President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, Vice President Jejomar 'Jojo' Binay, and other officials.\" width=\"604\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-ph-4-1024x364.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-ph-4-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pope-francis-ph-4.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Francis has disembarked the Sri Lankan airbus and was welcomed by President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, Vice President Jejomar &#8216;Jojo&#8217; Binay, and other officials.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>COLOMBO, Sri Lanka\u2014 Christian and non-Christian Sri Lankans numbering in the tens of thousands came out to greet Pope Francis on his visit to their nation, to canonize their first-ever saint.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd in the predominantly Buddhist nation looked upon the pope with admiration, as he canonized Joseph Vaz &#8211; a priest who fervently fought against the persecution of Catholics by the island&#8217;s 17th-century Protestant Dutch rulers \u2013 in a seaside ceremony held on January 14, at the oceanfront of the capital city of Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>As impressive as the turnout in Sri-Lanka was, however, the Pope\u2019s aides from the Vatican couldn\u2019t help but caution him: \u201cYou haven\u2019t seen anything yet. Wait till you get to the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAh, the Philippines. Of course, of course, Filipinos will welcome the Pope by the millions,\u201d said the Vatican\u2019s spokesperson, Fr. Federico Lombardi.<\/p>\n<p>With papal fever ever on the rise in the Philippines, especially on the heels of Pope Francis\u2019 successful Sr-Lankan trip, a throng of devotees in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation is expected to show up for the pontiff\u2019s scheduled activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillions will turn out for the Pope there,\u201d Alic Bonneton of French Catholic Television commented; as he noted that amongst the media, there is a high level of expectancy surrounding the Holy Father\u2019s visit to the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>This is Pope Francis second Asian tour, but his first time to the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Sri Lanka\u2014 Christian and non-Christian Sri Lankans numbering in the tens of thousands came out to greet Pope Francis &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":38533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}