{"id":6573,"date":"2004-08-06T20:20:42","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T01:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/08\/06\/you-will-reef-what-you-sow\/"},"modified":"2004-08-06T20:20:42","modified_gmt":"2004-08-07T01:20:42","slug":"you-will-reef-what-you-sow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/08\/you-will-reef-what-you-sow\/","title":{"rendered":"You will Reef what you sow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\"> <span class=\"articles\">THE Great Barrier Reef is sacred and Queensland&#8217;s 900,000 Catholics commit a sin if they deliberately damage it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">In an extraordinary move, the state&#8217;s seven Catholic bishops yesterday issued a pastoral letter outlining a clear obligation on the part of Catholics to protect the reef.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Titled Let the Many Coastlands Be Glad (from Psalm 97), the letter outlines the sanctity of the reef and backs new green zones restricting fishing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">It also carries Vatican approval, stemming directly from the Pope&#8217;s 2001 New Year message where he asked for an &quot;ecological conversion&quot; on the environment &#8211; a change of heart before God.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Archbishop of Brisbane John Bathersby said Catholics who deliberately set about the reef&#8217;s destruction committed a sin. <br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5744,10369745%255E421,00.html\">Full Story<\/a>]\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I wonder if the Archbishop is a Coral Theologian?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Great Barrier Reef is sacred and Queensland&#8217;s 900,000 Catholics commit a sin if they deliberately damage it. In an extraordinary move, the state&#8217;s seven Catholic bishops yesterday issued a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573","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=6573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}