{"id":16308,"date":"2018-12-06T23:49:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=16308"},"modified":"2018-12-06T23:57:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T04:57:55","slug":"caged-baby-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2018\/12\/caged-baby-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Caged Baby Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>That message this year questions \u201cpeace on earth\u201d, since Jesus represents migrant children being held at the southern border separated from their parents.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The wise men are the caravan of migrants behind the border wall. They believe it\u2019s very much the message of Jesus. \u201cJesus was about taking care of one another. This is not the way to take care of one another,\u201d said Fr. Josoma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to scandalize anyone,\u201d said parishioner Pat Ferrone, a member of the Pax Christi committee which came up with the idea for the display. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to reflect back a reality that has to be looked at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The nativity scene in Dedham has a baby Jesus in a cage, calling attention to immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border. (WBZ-TV)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But mixing politics with religion isn\u2019t sitting well with some who believe the nativity scene has crossed a line. \u201cThis is where you come to pray not to be preached at what you should think about politics,\u201d said Helen Watson who drove to church to see the display.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Josoma insists the scene is not a dig at Trump administration policies. Instead of political activism he calls it gospel activism. \u201cWe talk about Matthew 25 feeding the hungry and welcoming the stranger.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/boston.cbslocal.com\/2018\/12\/05\/dedham-nativity-scene-saint-susana-parish-immigration\/?fbclid=IwAR3XUM2iBkLhu2DY4S2E9wZZAp17EqO1oenTO4313XwVoHes4kyFAesUn2c\">Source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am outraged! Everybody knows for Catholic you don\u2019t put out the Baby Jesus in a cage until Christmas Eve. Gee, what were they thinking?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the only Baby Jesus\u2019 I worship are cage-free, free-range, and organic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That message this year questions \u201cpeace on earth\u201d, since Jesus represents migrant children being held at the southern border separated from their parents. &nbsp; The wise men are the caravan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308","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=16308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16313,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16308\/revisions\/16313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}