{"id":2018,"date":"2016-04-17T16:34:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T05:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2016-04-17T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T05:34:33","slug":"pope-francis-and-legalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/pope-francis-and-legalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis And Legalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POPE Francis has criticised those who care more about the letter of the law than people&#8217;s individual situations in the context of his recent letter <em>Amoris<\/em> <em>Laetitia<\/em> and its tone of mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a homily at Mass last Monday April 11, the Pope warned Catholics against such behaviour by recalling the attack of blasphemy against Stephen by religious leaders at the time. He said: &#8220;Their hearts, closed to God&#8217;s truth, clutch only at the truth of the Law, taking it be the &#8216;letter&#8217; and do not find outlets other than in lies, false witness and death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Pope criticised such an approach as being the wrong response to repentant people.<\/p>\n<p>The Pope&#8217;s homily came days after his Letter, &#8220;The Joy of Love&#8221;, in which he called for priests to take a more pastoral approach to people in irregular situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPE Francis has criticised those who care more about the letter of the law than people&#8217;s individual situations in the context of his recent letter Amoris Laetitia and its tone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pastoral-messages"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kmgit.com\/testbuzz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}