{"id":53539,"date":"2025-04-26T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T12:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/huge-honour-to-represent-at-pope-francis-funeral\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T12:48:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T12:48:37","slug":"huge-honour-to-represent-at-pope-francis-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/huge-honour-to-represent-at-pope-francis-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Huge honour&#8217; to represent at Pope Francis funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">First Minister Michelle O&#8217;Neill has said it was a &#8220;huge honour&#8221; to be at Pope Francis&#8217; funeral, representing &#8220;all those people at home who looked towards him for spiritual leadership&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">O&#8217;Neill, who cut short a family holiday to attend, said it was a &#8220;huge historic moment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She said Pope Francis had been &#8220;admired by so many, myself included&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly did not attend the funeral.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Speaking to BBC News NI after the funeral, O&#8217;Neill called Pope Francis &#8220;a man of humility, a man who practised what he preached and was very much on the side of the marginalised and of the poor, who spoke up against injustice wherever he saw it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c98gryj1ll3o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Minister Michelle O&#8217;Neill has said it was a &#8220;huge honour&#8221; to be at Pope Francis&#8217; funeral, representing &#8220;all those people at home who looked towards him for spiritual leadership&#8221;. O&#8217;Neill, who cut short a family holiday to attend, said it was a &#8220;huge historic moment&#8221;. She said Pope Francis had been &#8220;admired by so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[11275,3245,3229,1610,6240,8852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53541,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53539\/revisions\/53541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}