{"id":40145,"date":"2013-09-20T02:10:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T02:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/iii_john_allen_of_nc_reporter-pope_rejects_church_of_small-minded_rules_in\/"},"modified":"2013-09-20T02:10:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T02:10:21","slug":"iii_john_allen_of_nc_reporter-pope_rejects_church_of_small-minded_rules_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40145","title":{"rendered":"(III) John Allen of NC Reporter&#8211;Pope rejects church of &#39;small-minded rules&#39; in Jesuit interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a wide-ranging interview for 16 Jesuit publications around the world, including America magazine in the United States, Pope Francis once again has waded into hot-button questions such as homosexuality, abortion and the role of women, not breaking with traditional doctrine but trying to shift the church&#8217;s emphasis from condemnation to mercy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules,&#8221; Francis says. &#8220;Ministers of the church must be ministers of mercy above all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pope also warns against a &#8220;restorationist&#8221; mentality in Catholicism and insists that &#8220;thinking with the church&#8221; cannot mean solely thinking with the hierarchy. Francis also pointedly says, &#8220;I have never been a right-winger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/pope-rejects-church-small-minded-rules-jesuit-interview\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a wide-ranging interview for 16 Jesuit publications around the world, including America magazine in the United States, Pope Francis once again has waded into hot-button questions such as homosexuality, abortion and the role of women, not breaking with traditional<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40145\">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":[42,154,637,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40145","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=40145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}