{"id":15454,"date":"2009-10-10T22:30:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T22:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_tablet_western_world_is_exporting_its_spiritual_toxic_waste_to_africa\/"},"modified":"2009-10-10T22:30:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T22:30:50","slug":"the_tablet_western_world_is_exporting_its_spiritual_toxic_waste_to_africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15454","title":{"rendered":"The Tablet: Pope says Western world \u201d\u02dcis exporting its spiritual toxic waste\u2019 to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic population of Africa has shot up from 1.9 million in 1900 to almost 165 million today, and more than 40 per cent of all adult baptisms in the world take place in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>During the synod\u2019s opening liturgy, which featured more Latin and Gregorian chant than African languages and hymns, the Pope blamed the \u201cso-called First World\u201d\u009d for continuing to \u201cexport its spiritual toxic waste\u201d\u009d to the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this sense, colonialism, which is over at a political level, has never really entirely come to an end,\u201d\u009d he said in a lengthy homily delivered entirely in Italian.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/article\/13750\" title=\"http:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/article\/13750\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/articles\/a0000659.shtml\">The Catholic Herald has a lot more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic population of Africa has shot up from 1.9 million in 1900 to almost 165 million today, and more than 40 per cent of all adult baptisms in the world take place in Africa. During the synod\u2019s opening liturgy,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15454\">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":[50,42,202,154,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454","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=15454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}