{"id":38161,"date":"2013-05-06T17:02:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T17:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_battle_with_the_devil_pope_francis_frames_the_fight_in_jesuit_terms\/"},"modified":"2013-05-06T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T17:02:52","slug":"cns_battle_with_the_devil_pope_francis_frames_the_fight_in_jesuit_terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38161","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Battle with the devil: Pope Francis frames the fight in Jesuit terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the teaching of Pope Francis, the devil has a more dastardly agenda than just convincing people to break one of the Ten Commandments; &#8220;the enemy&#8221; wants them to feel weak, worthless and always ready to complain or gossip.<\/p>\n<p>In his first month in office, Pope Francis continually preached about God&#8217;s love and mercy, but he also frequently mentioned the devil and that sly dog&#8217;s glee when people take their eyes off of Jesus and focus only on what&#8217;s going wrong around them.<\/p>\n<p>In the book &#8220;On Heaven and Earth,&#8221; originally published in Spanish in 2010, the then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, said, &#8220;I believe that the devil exists&#8221; and &#8220;his greatest achievement in these times has been to make us believe he doesn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1301741.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the teaching of Pope Francis, the devil has a more dastardly agenda than just convincing people to break one of the Ten Commandments; &#8220;the enemy&#8221; wants them to feel weak, worthless and always ready to complain or gossip. In<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38161\">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":[39,42,92,154,637,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-books","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38161","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=38161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}