{"id":19704,"date":"2010-05-12T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns-in_portuguese_capital_pope_urges_catholics_to_re-evangelize\/"},"modified":"2010-05-12T14:39:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:39:24","slug":"cns-in_portuguese_capital_pope_urges_catholics_to_re-evangelize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19704","title":{"rendered":"CNS&#8211;In Portuguese capital, Pope urges Catholics to re-evangelize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> At a Mass for more than 100,000 people in Portugal, Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics to re-evangelize society by witnessing the joy and hope of the Gospel in every sector of contemporary life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s pastoral priority is to make each Christian man and woman a radiant presence of the Gospel perspective in the midst of the world, in the family, in culture, in the economy, in politics,&#8221; the pope said May 11 at an open-air liturgy in Lisbon, the Portuguese capital.<\/p>\n<p>To evangelize effectively, he said, Catholics themselves need to grow closer to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bear witness to all of the joy that his strong yet gentle presence evokes, starting with your contemporaries. Tell them that it is beautiful to be a friend of Jesus and that it is well worth following him,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1001980.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Mass for more than 100,000 people in Portugal, Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics to re-evangelize society by witnessing the joy and hope of the Gospel in every sector of contemporary life. &#8220;Today&#8217;s pastoral priority is to make each<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19704\">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":[48,50,42,200,440,154,184,636,458,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-portugal","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704","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=19704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}