{"id":15939,"date":"2009-11-05T19:30:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vatican_denounces_european_ruling_against_crucifixes_in_schools\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T19:30:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T19:30:33","slug":"vatican_denounces_european_ruling_against_crucifixes_in_schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15939","title":{"rendered":"Vatican denounces European ruling against crucifixes in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican said it experienced &#8220;surprise and sorrow&#8221; when a European court ruled that the crucifixes hanging in Italian public schools violate religious freedom.<\/p>\n<p>The European Court of Human Rights ruled Nov. 3 that the crucifixes hanging in every public classroom in Italy were &#8220;a violation of the freedom of parents to educate their children according to their own convictions and of the religious freedom of the students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, reacted to the decision saying, &#8220;The crucifix has always been a sign of God&#8217;s offer of love and a sign of union and welcome for all humanity. It is sad that it is being considered a sign of division, exclusion or limitation of freedom. That is not what it is and that is not the common feeling of our people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/0904901.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican said it experienced &#8220;surprise and sorrow&#8221; when a European court ruled that the crucifixes hanging in Italian public schools violate religious freedom. The European Court of Human Rights ruled Nov. 3 that the crucifixes hanging in every public<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15939\">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":[39,50,42,111,200,114,154,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-education","category-europe","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939","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=15939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}