{"id":40354,"date":"2013-10-02T16:45:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T16:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wash-_post_pope_francis_stirs_debate_yet_again_with_interview_with_an_athei\/"},"modified":"2013-10-02T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T16:45:54","slug":"wash-_post_pope_francis_stirs_debate_yet_again_with_interview_with_an_athei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40354","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) Pope Francis stirs debate yet again with interview with an atheist Italian journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis cranked up his charm offensive on the world outside the Vatican on Tuesday, saying in the second widely shared media interview in two weeks that each person \u201cmust choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them\u201d\u009d and calling efforts to convert people to Christianity \u201csolemn nonsense&#8230;.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Some conservative Catholics were also taken aback by the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy e-mail is filled with notes from people who need to be talked off the ledge,\u201d\u009d wrote the Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, author of one of the more popular blogs for Catholic conservatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/pope-francis-stirs-debate-yet-again-with-interview-with-an-atheist-italian-journalist\/2013\/10\/01\/9e7a6790-2acb-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis cranked up his charm offensive on the world outside the Vatican on Tuesday, saying in the second widely shared media interview in two weeks that each person \u201cmust choose to follow the good and fight evil as he<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40354\">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":[39,50,42,200,119,448,89,154,637,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-globalization","category-italy","category-media","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354","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=40354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}