{"id":37698,"date":"2025-04-22T09:40:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=37698"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:47:26","slug":"david-gibson-81-reflects-on-life-of-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/david-gibson-81-reflects-on-life-of-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gibson &#8217;81 reflects on life of Pope Francis on CBS News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/about\/living-the-mission\/center-on-religion-and-culture\/contact\/\">David Gibson<\/a>, director of Fordham University&#8217;s Center on Religion and Culture, spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/who-might-replace-pope-francis-after-his-death\/\">CBS New York<\/a> about Pope Francis who died April 21 at age 88. Gibson, a 1981 Furman University European history major, commented on the Pope&#8217;s humility, his Jesuit heritage and his record of addressing longstanding issues in the Catholic Church. A journalist, Gibson covered the Vatican earlier in his career. He has written books about Catholicism and has co-written and co-produced documentaries on Christianity for CNN and The History Channel. He co-authored a book about biblical archeology, &#8220;Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery,&#8221; which was the basis for a popular CNN series. In the CBS interview, Gibson speculated on who might succeed the Bishop of Rome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author, filmmaker and director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, David Gibson &#8217;81 reflects on the legacy of Pope Francis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":37700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1792,42,6],"tags":[3375,3381,3376,2457,2454],"class_list":["post-37698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cbs-news","category-history","category-in-the-news","tag-catholic-church","tag-fordham-university","tag-jesuit-faith","tag-pope-francis","tag-the-vatican"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37698"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37776,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37698\/revisions\/37776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}