{"id":93393,"date":"2020-05-30T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93393"},"modified":"2020-05-30T17:23:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T21:23:41","slug":"rns-us-roman-catholic-bishops-southern-baptists-grieve-death-of-george-floyd-call-for-justice-condemn-abuse-of-police-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93393","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) US Roman Catholic bishops, Southern Baptists, grieve death of George Floyd, call for justice, condemn abuse of police power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders from two of the largest faith groups in the United States issued statements lamenting the death of George Floyd and calling for an end to racial inequality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are broken-hearted, sickened, and outraged to watch another video of an African American man being killed before our very eyes,&#8221; wrote a group of U.S. Catholic bishops who head committees for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. &#8220;What\u2019s more astounding is that this is happening within mere weeks of several other such occurrences. This is the latest wake-up call that needs to be answered by each of us in a spirit of determined conversion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bishops drafting the letter include Archbishop Nelson J. P\u00e9rez of Philadelphia, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, and Bishop Joseph N. Perry, auxiliary bishop of Chicago, and numerous others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2020\/05\/30\/us-catholic-bishops-southern-baptists-grieve-death-of-george-floyd-call-for-justice-condemn-abuse-of-police-power\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">US Catholic bishops, Southern Baptists, grieve death of George Floyd, call for justice, condemn abuse of police power <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JBr9O2v2hD\">https:\/\/t.co\/JBr9O2v2hD<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RNS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Smietana (@bobsmietana) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bobsmietana\/status\/1266841344254840833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders from two of the largest faith groups in the United States issued statements lamenting the death of George Floyd and calling for an end to racial inequality. &#8220;We are broken-hearted, sickened, and outraged to watch another video of an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=93393\">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":[209,175,422,168,114,578,120,108,414,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-baptists","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-policefire","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic-other-churches","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93393","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=93393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93395,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93393\/revisions\/93395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}