{"id":35103,"date":"2012-10-15T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T02:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_vatican_iis_call_for_renewal_did_not_break_with_tradition_pope_says\/"},"modified":"2012-10-15T02:00:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T02:00:35","slug":"cns_vatican_iis_call_for_renewal_did_not_break_with_tradition_pope_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35103","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Vatican II&#39;s call for renewal did not break with tradition, pope says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Christianity must never be seen as something from the past, nor lived with one&#8217;s gaze always looking back, because Jesus is yesterday, today and for all eternity,&#8221; Pope Benedict said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This &#8216;renewal&#8217; does not mean a break with tradition, rather it expresses a lasting vitality,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Renewal doesn&#8217;t mean watering down the faith, lowering it to fit modern fads or trends, or fashioning it to fit public opinion or one&#8217;s own desires, &#8220;rather it&#8217;s the contrary,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1204312.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Christianity must never be seen as something from the past, nor lived with one&#8217;s gaze always looking back, because Jesus is yesterday, today and for all eternity,&#8221; Pope Benedict said. &#8220;This &#8216;renewal&#8217; does not mean a break with tradition, rather<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35103\">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":[48,42,186,154,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-church-history","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35103","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=35103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}