{"id":309,"date":"2008-03-17T16:24:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T06:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/03\/17\/pope-calls-for-self-examination\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T06:24:17","slug":"pope-calls-for-self-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/03\/17\/pope-calls-for-self-examination\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope calls for self-examination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">Pope Benedict called on Catholics to examine whether worldly desires had corrupted their faith, as he commemorated Palm Sunday before a crowd holding palm fronds and olive branches.<\/p>\n<p>In a service to mark Christ&#8217;s triumphant entry into Jerusalem a week before being crucified, Pope Benedict asked the faithful to remember that greed was also a form of idolatry that could creep into their daily life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is our faith pure and open enough?&#8221; said the Pope, seated on a dais in front of St. Peter&#8217;s basilica, wearing red, gold and white vestments. &#8220;Do we perhaps let idols, through various means, enter in the world of our faith?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/03\/17\/2190939.htm\" title=\"ABC news\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&gt;&gt;\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict called on Catholics to examine whether worldly desires had corrupted their faith, as he commemorated Palm Sunday before a crowd holding palm fronds and olive branches. In a service to mark Christ&#8217;s triumphant entry into Jerusalem a week before being crucified, Pope Benedict asked the faithful to remember that greed was also a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}