{"id":27383,"date":"2015-10-02T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=27383"},"modified":"2015-10-02T16:55:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T20:55:44","slug":"october-2-2015-assessing-u-s-visit-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/10\/02\/october-2-2015-assessing-u-s-visit-pope-francis\/27383\/","title":{"rendered":" Assessing U.S. Visit of Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pope has returned to Rome after his historic trip to the United States, but the message and meaning of his words and actions are still being debated. We are joined by John Carr, director of Georgetown University&#8217;s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought, and Pat Zapor, who covered the pope&#8217;s trip for Catholic News Service, about how the pope was received, what he said and did, and what the impact of his message may be on the Catholic Church and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The pope looks at the world in a different way. He looks at the world, he looks at economics, he looks at the environment, politics from the bottom up, from the outside in, and those aren&#8217;t Washington&#8217;s priorities or Washington&#8217;s ways. 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