{"id":55858,"date":"2016-10-03T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/why_pope_francis_sees_grandparents_and_moms_as_the_primary_carriers_of_a_pe\/"},"modified":"2016-10-03T01:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T01:00:13","slug":"why_pope_francis_sees_grandparents_and_moms_as_the_primary_carriers_of_a_pe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55858","title":{"rendered":"Why Pope Francis sees grandparents and moms as the primary carriers of a people&#39;s culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In other words, what Francis emphasizes is that the \u201cmemory of a people\u201d\u009d is never an abstraction &#8211; it\u2019s composed of specific memories and experiences lodged in individual, flesh-and-blood people, and thus \u201ckeeping alive the past\u201d\u009d is in large part about hearing their stories and paying respect to their wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>As he often does at this stage in his improv sessions, Francis emphasized the importance of the elderly, issuing a call on young people to cultivate strong ties with their grandparents, and also stressed the importance of \u201cmothers and grandmothers\u201d\u009d as the carriers of both memory and culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA plant without roots doesn\u2019t grow, the pope said. \u201cIn the same way, a faith without roots in a mom and grandma doesn\u2019t grow.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/all-things-catholic\/2016\/10\/01\/pope-francis-memory-people-always-concrete\">Read it all<\/a> from Crux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other words, what Francis emphasizes is that the \u201cmemory of a people\u201d\u009d is never an abstraction &#8211; it\u2019s composed of specific memories and experiences lodged in individual, flesh-and-blood people, and thus \u201ckeeping alive the past\u201d\u009d is in large part<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55858\">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":[39,175,101,168,133,98,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55858","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=55858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}