{"id":10691,"date":"2009-01-13T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vatican_official_urges_family_groups_to_increase_lobbying_efforts\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:10:10","slug":"vatican_official_urges_family_groups_to_increase_lobbying_efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10691","title":{"rendered":"Vatican official urges family groups to increase lobbying efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the Sixth World Meeting of Families, a Vatican official said Christian family groups must increase their efforts to have an impact on legislation and government programs.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, said government decisions &#8212; particularly regarding the economy, job creation and housing &#8212; have a huge impact on families and their voices must be heard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Policies must be developed not only for families, but with families,&#8221; he told reporters Jan. 9.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All laws and programs have an impact on the family and legislators must have a better understanding of the needs and desires of families,&#8221; the cardinal said at a briefing to present the final program for the Jan. 14-18 World Meeting of Families in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/0900108.htm\" title=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/0900108.htm\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of the Sixth World Meeting of Families, a Vatican official said Christian family groups must increase their efforts to have an impact on legislation and government programs. Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, president of the Pontifical Council for the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10691\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,101,119,114,98,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-globalization","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}