{"id":256125,"date":"2013-09-19T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/19\/pope-bluntly-faults-churchs-focus-on-gays-and\/"},"modified":"2013-09-19T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T16:26:00","slug":"pope-bluntly-faults-churchs-focus-on-gays-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/19\/pope-bluntly-faults-churchs-focus-on-gays-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Bluntly Faults Church&#8217;s Focus on Gays and Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/20\/world\/europe\/pope-bluntly-faults-churchs-focus-on-gays-and-abortion.html'>Pope Bluntly Faults Church&#8217;s Focus on Gays and Abortion<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote class=\"link_og_blockquote\">\n<div>We have to find a new balance, Pope Francis said in the first extensive interview of his papacy, in which he sought to set a new tone for the church.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay I&rsquo;m not even Catholic and I like this pope:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;\u201cA person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality,\u201d he told Father Spadaro. \u201cI replied with another question: \u2018Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?\u2019 We must always consider the person.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis church with which we should be thinking is the home of all, not a small chapel that can hold only a small group of selected people,\u201d he said. \u201cWe must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree with this tweet:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/43488790f5e6f38dda33f5766afe7cbc\/tumblr_inline_mtdskn0A3u1rw8a11.png\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Bluntly Faults Church&#8217;s Focus on Gays and Abortion We have to find a new balance, Pope Francis said in the first extensive interview of his papacy, in which he sought to set a new tone for the church. Okay I&rsquo;m not even Catholic and I like this pope: &ldquo;\u201cA person once asked me, in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/19\/pope-bluntly-faults-churchs-focus-on-gays-and\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pope Bluntly Faults Church&#8217;s Focus on Gays and Abortion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[60,15686,551,25124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}