{"id":57973,"date":"2017-03-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/03\/21\/prague-mourns-death-of-card-miloslav-vlk-a-window-washer-during-communism\/"},"modified":"2017-03-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T11:00:00","slug":"prague-mourns-death-of-card-miloslav-vlk-a-window-washer-during-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/03\/21\/prague-mourns-death-of-card-miloslav-vlk-a-window-washer-during-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"Prague mourns death of Card. Miloslav Vlk: A window washer during communism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of 85, Czech Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, the Archbishop of Prague from 1991-2010 has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of the few cardinals who lived during the hardest years of communism. He was ordained in 1968 and had to live clandestinely as a priest. In order to avoid suspicion, he worked as a window washer.<\/p>\n<p>John Paul II made him a cardinal in 1994. He was president of the episcopal conferences of Europe and participated in the conclave that elected Benedict XVI.<\/p>\n<p>With his death, the college of cardinals descends to 224 cardinals, 117 of them electors and 107 non-electors.<\/p>\n<p>JRB\/MB<br \/>\nRR<br \/>\nFL<br \/>\n-PR<br \/>\nUp:AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 21, 2017. He was one of the last cardinals who lived during the hardest years of the persecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/s_zGjNMQjww","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmiloslavvlkint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57973"}],"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=57973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}