{"id":34722,"date":"2012-09-23T22:16:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pope_christians_in_politics_defend_life_family_and_the_common_good\/"},"modified":"2012-09-23T22:16:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T22:16:12","slug":"pope_christians_in_politics_defend_life_family_and_the_common_good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34722","title":{"rendered":"(Vatican Radio) Pope: Christians in politics defend life, family, and the common good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI today received the participants in the meeting of the Christian Democrat international organization\u2019s Executive Committee, which took place on Friday in Rome. The Holy Father encouraged the committee members to continue in their commitment to improving the quality of human relationships and conditions of life in ammanner consonant with Christian principles. \u201cThis commitment,\u201d\u009d said Pope Benedict, \u201cmust know no bending or folding, but instead should be lavished with renewed vitality, in view of the continuing and &#8211; in some ways &#8211; the deepening of the problems we face.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/articolo.asp?c=623570\">Read and\/or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI today received the participants in the meeting of the Christian Democrat international organization\u2019s Executive Committee, which took place on Friday in Rome. The Holy Father encouraged the committee members to continue in their commitment to improving the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34722\">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":[40,42,168,154,151,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34722","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=34722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}