{"id":34802,"date":"2012-09-27T20:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cardinal_peter_erd_to_european_roman_catholic_bishops-lack_of_hope_is_toda\/"},"modified":"2012-09-27T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:00:32","slug":"cardinal_peter_erd_to_european_roman_catholic_bishops-lack_of_hope_is_toda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34802","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal P\u00c3\u00a9ter Erd\u00c5\u2018 to European Roman Catholic Bishops&#8211;Lack of Hope is Today&#39;s Greatest Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When members of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences gather Thursday to begin their plenary assembly, they will be addressing, according to the group&#8217;s president, the &#8220;greatest evil of our time.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat evil is a &#8220;lack of hope,&#8221; according to Cardinal P\u00c3\u00a9ter Erd\u00c5\u2018, archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, and CCEE president.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the bishops&#8217; four-day meeting is the social and spiritual aspects of the challenges of our times. The bishops will consider the topic through three different perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>These three interventions have been entrusted to Archbishop Andr\u00c3\u00a9-Joseph L\u00c3\u00a9onard of Malines-Brussels, president of the Belgian Bishops\u2019 Conference; Professor Marta Cartabia, lecturer in law and judge of the Constitutional Court in Italy; and Professor Kuno Schedler, lecturer in business economics at the University of St Gallen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-35601?l=english\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When members of the Council of European Episcopal Conferences gather Thursday to begin their plenary assembly, they will be addressing, according to the group&#8217;s president, the &#8220;greatest evil of our time.&#8221; That evil is a &#8220;lack of hope,&#8221; according to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34802\">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":[39,40,50,42,175,149,178,168,200,154,177,151,636,129,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-economy","category-eschatology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34802","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=34802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}