{"id":58421,"date":"2025-05-25T10:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T10:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58421"},"modified":"2025-05-25T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T10:46:04","slug":"what-language-does-the-pope-speak-in-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58421","title":{"rendered":"What language does the pope speak &#8230; in private?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I have to say that until this very moment, I never gave a moment&#8217;s thought to what I am about to post on this blog.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Catholic Church is now being led by an American-born pontiff. Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago. He&#8217;s a White Sox fan. He also is fluent in many languages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>What I never have thought about is this: <em>What language does the pope use in casual conversation when he&#8217;s knocking around the Vatican? <\/em>Does he speak his American-accented English, his first language? Or does he speak in Italian, or Spanish, or Latin &#8230; or any of the other languages he speaks with ease?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I continue to be amazed that the College of Cardinals selected an American to lead the world&#8217;s 1.4 billion Catholics. To be candid, Leo XIV&#8217;s prresence draws me &#8212; a baptized Orthodox Christian &#8212; a touch closer to Catholicism.<\/p>\r\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say that until this very moment, I never gave a moment&#8217;s thought to what I am about to post on this blog. The Catholic Church is now being led by an American-born pontiff. Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago. He&#8217;s a White Sox fan. He also is fluent in many languages. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=58421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What language does the pope speak &#8230; in private?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[881,10449,5436],"class_list":["post-58421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-news","tag-catholic-church","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58424,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58421\/revisions\/58424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}