{"id":73254,"date":"2013-02-11T12:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T12:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=73254"},"modified":"2013-02-11T12:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T12:10:26","slug":"vatican-confirms-pope-benedict-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/vatican-confirms-pope-benedict-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Confirms Pope Benedict To Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI will resign on February 28th, the Vatican has announced.\u00a0Pontiff, 85, who has arthritis, says he will\u00a0step down\u00a0on 28 February after nearly eight years as head of Catholic church.<\/p>\n<p>Follow reaction to the surprise news with reports that he will go this month &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/feb\/11\/pope-resigns-live-reaction\">the Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Updates and reaction &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/the-pope\/9862227\/Pope-Benedict-XVI-to-resign-live.html\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":66210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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