{"id":14729,"date":"2013-02-13T19:08:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T00:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=14729"},"modified":"2013-05-10T15:04:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T19:04:09","slug":"papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/","title":{"rendered":"Papal Resignation and Succession: Lay Catholic Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- http:\/\/www-tc.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/rss\/media\/video\/episode-1624-lay-catholics-pope.m4v -->On Ash Wednesday, outside St. Matthew&#8217;s Cathedral in Washington, D.C., we spoke with Catholics about their reaction to the news that Pope Benedict will step down at the end of February, and what they hope to see in his successor.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Ash Wednesday, outside St. Matthew&#8217;s Cathedral in Washington, D.C., we spoke with Catholics about their reaction to the news that Pope Benedict will step down at the end of February, and what they hope to see in his successor. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":18111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[7215,1065,10997,2197,1821],"class_list":["post-14729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-american-catholics","tag-catholic-church","tag-papal-succession","tag-pope-benedict-xvi","tag-vatican","topics-international","faith-catholic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Papal Resignation and Succession: Lay Catholic Reaction | February 13, 2013 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We spoke with Catholics about their reaction to the news that Pope Benedict will step down at the end of February and what they hope to see in his successor.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Papal Resignation and Succession: Lay Catholic Reaction | February 13, 2013 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We spoke with Catholics about their reaction to the news that Pope Benedict will step down at the end of February and what they hope to see in his successor.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PBS.ReligionEthics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-02-14T00:08:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-05-10T19:04:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2013\/02\/thumb01-laycatholics-pope.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"100\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fred Yi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ReligionEthics\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ReligionEthics\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Fred Yi\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/13\\\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\\\/14729\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/13\\\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\\\/14729\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Fred Yi\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0576fe5f06986bc0418635994a2bcd47\"},\"headline\":\"Papal Resignation and Succession: Lay Catholic Reaction\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-14T00:08:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-05-10T19:04:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/13\\\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\\\/14729\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":50,\"commentCount\":1,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/13\\\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\\\/14729\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/files\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/thumb01-laycatholics-pope.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"American Catholics\",\"Catholic Church\",\"papal succession\",\"Pope Benedict XVI\",\"Vatican\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Videocast\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/13\\\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\\\/14729\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/13\\\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\\\/14729\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/13\\\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\\\/14729\\\/\",\"name\":\"Papal Resignation and Succession: Lay Catholic Reaction | February 13, 2013 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/13\\\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\\\/14729\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/13\\\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\\\/14729\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/files\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/thumb01-laycatholics-pope.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-02-14T00:08:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-05-10T19:04:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0576fe5f06986bc0418635994a2bcd47\"},\"description\":\"We spoke with Catholics about their reaction to the news that Pope Benedict will step down at the end of February and what they hope to see in his successor.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/13\\\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\\\/14729\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/13\\\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\\\/14729\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/files\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/thumb01-laycatholics-pope.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/files\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/thumb01-laycatholics-pope.jpg\",\"width\":200,\"height\":100},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/\",\"name\":\"Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly\",\"description\":\"An examination of religion&#039;s role and the ethical dimensions behind top news headlines.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/search-results\\\/?q={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0576fe5f06986bc0418635994a2bcd47\",\"name\":\"Fred Yi\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.pbs.org\\\/wnet\\\/religionandethics\\\/author\\\/yif\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Papal Resignation and Succession: Lay Catholic Reaction | February 13, 2013 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS","description":"We spoke with Catholics about their reaction to the news that Pope Benedict will step down at the end of February and what they hope to see in his successor.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Papal Resignation and Succession: Lay Catholic Reaction | February 13, 2013 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS","og_description":"We spoke with Catholics about their reaction to the news that Pope Benedict will step down at the end of February and what they hope to see in his successor.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/","og_site_name":"Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PBS.ReligionEthics\/","article_published_time":"2013-02-14T00:08:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-05-10T19:04:09+00:00","og_image":[{"width":200,"height":100,"url":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2013\/02\/thumb01-laycatholics-pope.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Fred Yi","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ReligionEthics","twitter_site":"@ReligionEthics","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Fred Yi"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/"},"author":{"name":"Fred Yi","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/#\/schema\/person\/0576fe5f06986bc0418635994a2bcd47"},"headline":"Papal Resignation and Succession: Lay Catholic Reaction","datePublished":"2013-02-14T00:08:20+00:00","dateModified":"2013-05-10T19:04:09+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/"},"wordCount":50,"commentCount":1,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2013\/02\/thumb01-laycatholics-pope.jpg","keywords":["American Catholics","Catholic Church","papal succession","Pope Benedict XVI","Vatican"],"articleSection":["Videocast"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/","url":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/","name":"Papal Resignation and Succession: Lay Catholic Reaction | February 13, 2013 | Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2013\/02\/thumb01-laycatholics-pope.jpg","datePublished":"2013-02-14T00:08:20+00:00","dateModified":"2013-05-10T19:04:09+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/#\/schema\/person\/0576fe5f06986bc0418635994a2bcd47"},"description":"We spoke with Catholics about their reaction to the news that Pope Benedict will step down at the end of February and what they hope to see in his successor.","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/02\/13\/papal-resignation-and-succession-lay-catholic-reaction\/14729\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2013\/02\/thumb01-laycatholics-pope.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/files\/2013\/02\/thumb01-laycatholics-pope.jpg","width":200,"height":100},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/","name":"Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly","description":"An examination of religion&#039;s role and the ethical dimensions behind top news headlines.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/search-results\/?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/#\/schema\/person\/0576fe5f06986bc0418635994a2bcd47","name":"Fred Yi","url":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/author\/yif\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}