{"id":85630,"date":"2026-08-20T07:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85630"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:35:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:35:36","slug":"pope-will-visit-lourdes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-will-visit-lourdes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Will Visit Lourdes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Aleteia:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-paragraph Paragraph_dropCap__3aO41\" data-click-location=\"intext\">\n<p>There are already plenty of good reasons for an American Catholic to come to France. You can pray at Lourdes, step inside the newly restored Notre-Dame, follow in the footsteps of St. Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, climb the hill to Sacr\u00e9-C\u0153ur, and encounter enough saints, shrines, and spectacular churches to make you seriously reconsider the amount of time you&#8217;ve allocated to your trip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"flex flex-col items-center text-center print:hidden mb-4 p-0 !min-h-0\">\n<div id=\"infeed_1_desktop\" class=\"adslot\">This September, however, there&#8217;s another rather compelling reason to cross the Atlantic: the Pope is coming, too. From September 25 to 28, Pope Leo XIV will make an apostolic journey to France, with stops in Paris, Lourdes, and Metz.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aleteia: There are already plenty of good reasons for an American Catholic to come to France. You can pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85631,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85630\/revisions\/85631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}