{"id":21938,"date":"2010-09-20T15:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/catholic_herald_cameron_tells_pope_you_have_made_britain_sit_up_and_think\/"},"modified":"2010-09-20T15:15:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T15:15:18","slug":"catholic_herald_cameron_tells_pope_you_have_made_britain_sit_up_and_think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21938","title":{"rendered":"(Catholic Herald) Cameron tells Pope: \u201d\u02dcyou have made Britain sit up and think\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron has told Pope Benedict XVI in a powerful farewell speech that his visit had made Britain \u201csit up and think\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister said to the Pope: \u201cYou have spoken to a nation of six million Catholics, but you have been heard by a nation of over 60 million citizens.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He cited the Pope\u2019s speech in Westminster Hall on Friday, saying that \u201cfaith is not a problem for legislators to solve but rather a vital part of our national conversation\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Pope\u2019s lesson for Britons had been \u201cto follow our conscience, to ask not what are my entitlements, but what are my responsibilities; to ask not what we can do for ourselves, but what we can do for others\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2010\/09\/19\/cameron-tells-pope-you-have-made-britain-sit-up-and-think\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron has told Pope Benedict XVI in a powerful farewell speech that his visit had made Britain \u201csit up and think\u201d\u009d. The Prime Minister said to the Pope: \u201cYou have spoken to a nation of six million Catholics, but<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21938\">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":[39,40,50,42,199,154,151,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21938","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=21938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}