{"id":186498,"date":"2014-01-06T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/06\/ok-i-did-not-expect-this-from-pope-francis\/"},"modified":"2014-01-06T19:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T00:39:00","slug":"ok-i-did-not-expect-this-from-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/01\/06\/ok-i-did-not-expect-this-from-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, I Did Not Expect this from Pope Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 320px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.chzbgr.com\/maxW500\/1131259136\/h3D1B479A\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.chzbgr.com\/maxW500\/1131259136\/h3D1B479A\/\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Francis&#8217; Message to The Culture Warrior Bishops<\/i><\/div>\n<p>I know about outreach and all, but he just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/story\/342480\/news\/world\/pope-calls-for-fresh-church-approach-to-children-of-gay-divorced-parents\">called for outreach to the children of LGBT and divorced parents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Pope Francis has called for a rethink in the way the Catholic Church deals with the children of gay couples and divorced parents, warning against &#8220;administering a vaccine against faith.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;On an educational level, gay unions raise challenges for us today which for us are sometimes difficult to understand,&#8221; Francis said in a speech to the Catholic Union of Superiors General in November, extracts of which were published on Italian media websites on Saturday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The pontiff said educational leaders should ask themselves &#8220;how can we proclaim Christ to a generation that is changing?&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;We must be careful not to administer a vaccine against faith to them,&#8221; the 77-year-old added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Though the Church has often been in conflict with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community over its opposition to same-sex marriage and to homosexuality, Francis has drawn praise for attempts to be inclusive.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that is equal parts pragmatism (the current crop of Catholics are not getting any younger) and a new focus on ministry as a duty, but nonetheless I am impressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis&#8217; Message to The Culture Warrior Bishops I know about outreach and all, but he just called for outreach to the children of LGBT and divorced parents: Pope Francis has called for a rethink in the way the Catholic Church deals with the children of gay couples and divorced parents, warning against &#8220;administering a vaccine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,1003,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-philosophy","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}