{"id":51769,"date":"2015-09-24T20:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T20:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_full_text_of_pope_francis_historic_address_to_u-s-_congress_today\/"},"modified":"2015-09-24T20:30:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T20:30:33","slug":"the_full_text_of_pope_francis_historic_address_to_u-s-_congress_today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51769","title":{"rendered":"The full text of Pope Francis&#39; historic address to U.S. Congress today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yours is a work which makes me reflect in two ways on the figure of Moses.  On the one hand, the patriarch and lawgiver of the people of Israel symbolizes the need of peoples to keep alive their sense of unity by means of just legislation.  On the other, the figure of Moses leads us directly to God and thus to the transcendent dignity of the human being.  Moses provides us with a good synthesis of your work: you are asked to protect, by means of the law, the image and likeness fashioned by God on every human face.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2015\/09\/24\/pope_francis_makes_historic_address_to_us_congress\/1174365\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yours is a work which makes me reflect in two ways on the figure of Moses. On the one hand, the patriarch and lawgiver of the people of Israel symbolizes the need of peoples to keep alive their sense of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51769\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,149,168,119,617,597,154,151,637,108,364,618,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-house-of-representatives","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-francis","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-senate","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51769","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=51769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}