{"id":12269,"date":"2012-03-28T17:46:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12269"},"modified":"2012-03-28T17:46:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T21:46:49","slug":"the-pope-meets-fidel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/03\/the-pope-meets-fidel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope meets Fidel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12270\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TRMvd6261611.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12270\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12270\" title=\"Pope Benedict XVI with Fidel Castro\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TRMvd6261611-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TRMvd6261611-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TRMvd6261611.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pope Benedict XVI with Fidel Castro<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When the Pope arrived in Cuba in part he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We can no longer continue in the same cultural and moral direction which has caused the painful situation that many suffer. On the other hand, real progress calls for an ethics which focuses on the human person and takes account of the most profound human needs, especially man\u2019s spiritual and religious dimension. In the hearts and minds of many, the way is thus opening to an ever greater certainty that the rebirth of society demands upright men and women of firm moral convictions, with noble and strong values who will not be manipulated by dubious interests and who are respectful of the unchanging and transcendent nature of the human person.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Though meanwhile:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, Cuban state security has sent pro-democracy activists a text message: \u201cAs soon as the Pope leaves, we are going to disappear you all.\u201d (\u201cTan pronto como se vaya el #PapaCuba los vamos a desaparecer a todos ustedes.\u201d) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/294685\/helluva-text-message-jay-nordlinger\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Pope arrived in Cuba in part he said: We can no longer continue in the same cultural and moral direction which has caused the painful situation that many&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12271,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269\/revisions\/12271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}