{"id":657,"date":"2025-11-27T15:02:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewtnromania.com\/2025\/11\/27\/thanksgiving-gifts-for-pope-leo-xiv-on-papal-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:02:46","slug":"thanksgiving-gifts-for-pope-leo-xiv-on-papal-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/2025\/11\/27\/thanksgiving-gifts-for-pope-leo-xiv-on-papal-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Gifts for Pope Leo XIV on Papal Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"faq-summary\">\n<p><strong>Q: What is this article about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: This article details the Thanksgiving gifts Pope Leo XIV received on his papal flight to Turkey, marking the beginning of his first international trip and his interactions with journalists.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What kind of gifts did the Pope receive?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Pope Leo XIV received distinctly American gifts, including two pumpkin pies and a pecan pie, as well as a baseball bat once owned by Chicago White Sox legend Nellie Fox. He also received a Byzantine-style icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe from the Vatican press corps.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: Why was Thanksgiving celebrated on the papal flight?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: The papal flight to Ankara happened to be on Thanksgiving Day, leading American journalists to celebrate the holiday by gifting the Pope traditional Thanksgiving pies.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What touching personal interaction did the Pope have with a journalist?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Lebanese journalist Elias Turk shared a personal story with the Pope about living through the 2024 escalation between Hezbollah and Israel and asked him to bless rosaries for his nephews and a sick Polish girl, seeking prayers for peace.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Q: What fun fact did we learn about Pope Leo XIV?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: In a lighthearted moment, Pope Leo XIV revealed that he had already completed his daily Wordle puzzle, solving it in three tries, and also shared that his favorite Thanksgiving dish is stuffing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nThis is a summary of the article from https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-thanksgiving-gifts-papal-flight. Visit this link to view more.\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DhjWz7UzVX\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-thanksgiving-gifts-papal-flight\">Pies and a baseball bat: The gifts Pope Leo XIV received on the papal flight to Turkey\u00a0<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Pies and a baseball bat: The gifts Pope Leo XIV received on the papal flight to Turkey\u00a0&#8221; &#8212; EWTN Vatican\" src=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-thanksgiving-gifts-papal-flight\/embed#?secret=GQkRvc74U0#?secret=DhjWz7UzVX\" data-secret=\"DhjWz7UzVX\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What is this article about? A: This article details the Thanksgiving gifts Pope Leo XIV received on his papal flight to Turkey, marking the beginning of his first international trip and his interactions with journalists. Q: What kind of gifts did the Pope receive? A: Pope Leo XIV received distinctly American gifts, including two [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/denmark.ewtn.io\/da\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}