{"id":52414,"date":"2015-02-26T19:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2015\/02\/26\/new-cardinal-from-bangkok-pope-francis-told-me-the-role-a-is-a-service-of-lovea\/"},"modified":"2015-02-26T19:55:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T18:55:53","slug":"new-cardinal-from-bangkok-pope-francis-told-me-the-role-a-is-a-service-of-lovea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2015\/02\/26\/new-cardinal-from-bangkok-pope-francis-told-me-the-role-a-is-a-service-of-lovea\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cardinal from Bangkok: Pope Francis told me the role \u00e2??is a service of love\u00e2?\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than one percent of Thailand's people are Catholic, but they now have a representative at the highest level of the Universal Church. On February 14, the Archbishop of Bangkok was elevated to Cardinal.<\/p>\n<p>He said that because he didn't receive an official notification, he at first assumed the news of his appointment was just a rumor.<\/p>\n<p>CARD. FRANCIS XAVIER KRIENGSAK KOVITHAVANIJ\u00a0<br \/>\nArchbishop of Bangkok (Thailand)<br \/>\n'I didn't believe. But then my friend, a bishop from Korea, said that 'I heard the Holy Father himself now.' Then I had to believe.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He said that during the ceremony Pope Francis told him that that his job 'is a service of love.\u00e2?\u009d His family agrees with the Pope.<\/p>\n<p>CARD. FRANCIS XAVIER KRIENGSAK KOVITHAVANIJ\u00a0<br \/>\nArchbishop of Bangkok (Thailand)<br \/>\n'My brother, a Buddhist monk who was also in the Basilica, repeated that to me many, many times.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The new cardinal has now become part of the small group of men who could someday become Pope. Though he is relatively young at 65, he has remained humble.<\/p>\n<p>CARD. FRANCIS XAVIER KRIENGSAK KOVITHAVANIJ<br \/>\nArchbishop of Bangkok (Thailand)<br \/>\n'What I am here now, is almost older than it could be.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of the newest cardinals, Asia now has 14 cardinals who are eligible to vote in future Conclaves.<\/p>\n<p>ATO<br \/>\nAA\/MG<br \/>\nSV<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp:AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 26, 2015. ;His brother is a Buddhist monk and attended the ceremony. ;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":52415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WmsAcXGQF4A","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bbangkokint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}