{"id":23947,"date":"2011-01-12T06:24:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T06:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_arizona_religious_leaders_call_for_calm_civility\/"},"modified":"2011-01-12T06:24:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T06:24:44","slug":"rns_arizona_religious_leaders_call_for_calm_civility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23947","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Arizona Religious leaders call for calm, civility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas was thousands of miles away from the shooting rampage that rocked his Arizona diocese on Saturday (Jan. 8), but the emotional shock hit him hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It broke me up,&#8221; said Kicanas, who was in Jerusalem attending a meeting of Catholic bishops on peace in the Holy Land. &#8220;I could not sleep. I just wanted to return home as soon as possible,&#8221; the bishop wrote to his spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>The victims of Saturday&#8217;s shooting include a federal judge and devout Roman Catholic who attended Mass daily, and a 9-year-old girl who had received her First Communion at St. Odilia Parish in Tucson last year. Four other victims died and 14 were wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who police believe was the target of accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/Religion-News\/RNS-Religious-leaders-call-for-calm-civility.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucson Bishop Gerald Kicanas was thousands of miles away from the shooting rampage that rocked his Arizona diocese on Saturday (Jan. 8), but the emotional shock hit him hard. &#8220;It broke me up,&#8221; said Kicanas, who was in Jerusalem attending<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23947\">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":[39,40,151,108,619,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947","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=23947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}