{"id":186754,"date":"2013-10-22T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/10\/22\/ok-im-really-beginning-to-like-pope-francis-a-lot\/"},"modified":"2013-10-22T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T01:02:00","slug":"ok-im-really-beginning-to-like-pope-francis-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/10\/22\/ok-im-really-beginning-to-like-pope-francis-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, I&#8217;m Really Beginning to Like Pope Francis a Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is now talking about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2013\/10\/21\/pope-francis-describes-ideological-christians-as-a-serious-illness-within-the-church\/\">excessive focus on doctrine is a &#8220;serious illness in the Churgh&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Speaking at daily Mass last Thursday, Pope Francis warned Christians against turning their faith into a rigid ideology.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe faith passes, so to speak, through a distiller and becomes ideology,\u201d he said, according to Radio Vatican. \u201cAnd ideology does not beckon [people]. In ideologies there is not Jesus: in his tenderness, his love, his meekness. And ideologies are rigid, always. Of every sign: rigid.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cAnd when a Christian becomes a disciple of the ideology, he has lost the faith: he is no longer a disciple of Jesus, he is a disciple of this attitude of thought\u2026 For this reason Jesus said to them: \u2018You have taken away the key of knowledge.\u2019 The knowledge of Jesus is transformed into an ideological and also moralistic knowledge, because these close the door with many requirements.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering where this is all going to lead.<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding the cries of outrage sure to arise from conservatives, I see this as an unalloyed good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is now talking about how excessive focus on doctrine is a &#8220;serious illness in the Churgh&#8221;: Speaking at daily Mass last Thursday, Pope Francis warned Christians against turning their faith into a rigid ideology.\u201cThe faith passes, so to speak, through a distiller and becomes ideology,\u201d he said, according to Radio Vatican. \u201cAnd ideology does &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1003,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186754"}],"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=186754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}