{"id":49079,"date":"2018-08-06T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T12:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/08\/06\/pope-francis-do-not-reduce-religion-to-following-laws\/"},"modified":"2018-08-06T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T12:05:00","slug":"pope-francis-do-not-reduce-religion-to-following-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/08\/06\/pope-francis-do-not-reduce-religion-to-following-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Do not reduce religion to following laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis explained the true meaning of faith. He said it doesn't just consist of pleasing God with works, but of believing in whom He sent, Christ. Therefore, <strong>he warned of a common temptation among believers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThis is a common temptation: to reduce religion to the practice of laws, projecting on our relationship with God the image of the relationship between servants and their master.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before the 20,000 who endured the Roman heat, the pope said that, although many followed Jesus, because he met their immediate needs, Christ came to bring something else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cJesus came to bring us something more: to open our existence to a wider horizon than the daily preoccupations of eating, of dressing, of careers and so on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For this reason, <strong>Pope Francis insisted that Christ doesn't only want people to seek him, but to know him, <\/strong>to have a relationship of love and trust with God in order to carry out his works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cHe, the true 'bread of life,' wants to satiate not only bodies, but also souls, giving the spiritual food that can satisfy the greatest hunger. \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Before bidding farewell, the pope wanted to remember that August 6 marks <strong>the 40th anniversary of Paul VI's death<\/strong>, who will be canonized in October. As a gesture of recognition and affection, he asked for applause for Pope Montini, in which all the pilgrims in St. Peter joined.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 6, 2018. He recalled the 40th anniversary of the death of Pope Paul VI for August 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7nZVVfs9N5w","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus0508eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus0508int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}