{"id":37181,"date":"2021-02-17T02:14:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T07:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/?p=37181"},"modified":"2021-02-16T19:20:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:20:50","slug":"pope-francis-on-the-spiritual-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/2021\/02\/17\/pope-francis-on-the-spiritual-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis on the Spiritual Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spiritual stature of a person\u2019s life is measured by love, which in the end remains \u201cthe criterion for the definitive decision about a human life\u2019s worth or lack thereof\u201d (Pope Benedict, <em>Deus Caritas Est<\/em>, 2005) .\u00a0 Yet some unbelievers think that it consists in the imposition of their own ideologies upon everyone else, or in a violent defense of the truth, or in impressive demonstration of strength. All of us, as believers, need to recognize that love takes first place: Love must never be put at risk, and the greatest danger lies in family to love (cf. 1 Cor 13:1-13).<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis wrote these words in his encyclical letter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html\"><em>Fratelli Tutti<\/em><\/a> (<em>On Fraternity and Social Friendship<\/em>), October 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spiritual stature of a person\u2019s life is measured by love, which in the end remains \u201cthe criterion for the definitive decision about a human life\u2019s worth or lack thereof\u201d (Pope Benedict, Deus Caritas Est, 2005) .\u00a0 Yet some unbelievers think that it consists in the imposition of their own ideologies upon everyone else, or in a violent defense of<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/2021\/02\/17\/pope-francis-on-the-spiritual-life\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,14,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-faculty","category-salesian","category-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37182,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37181\/revisions\/37182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.desales.edu\/dsu-daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}