{"id":48480,"date":"2015-02-20T15:38:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_economist_erasmus_blog_pope_francis_and_the_copts_blood_and_ecumenism\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:38:22","slug":"the_economist_erasmus_blog_pope_francis_and_the_copts_blood_and_ecumenism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48480","title":{"rendered":"(The Economist Erasmus Blog)  Pope Francis and the Copts Blood and ecumenism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis is himself conservative enough to see that those problems, baffling as they may be to outsiders, run too deep to be solved overnight. But he is throwing out a challenge. People who cannot come together for a ritual of sacrifice in a church are being cast by circumstances into a single, dire community of fate. In one sense, that very fact renders their differences irrelevant. It also challenges people living in safer circumstances to work harder on tearing barriers down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/erasmus\/2015\/02\/pope-francis-and-copts\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis is himself conservative enough to see that those problems, baffling as they may be to outsiders, run too deep to be solved overnight. But he is throwing out a challenge. People who cannot come together for a ritual<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48480\">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":[48,40,42,411,438,158,154,184,637,364,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ecumenical-relations","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-francis","category-roman-catholic","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48480","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=48480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}