{"id":49711,"date":"2018-02-06T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2018\/02\/06\/pope-wants-to-fight-the-plague-of-cold-hearts-during-lent\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:13:00","slug":"pope-wants-to-fight-the-plague-of-cold-hearts-during-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2018\/02\/06\/pope-wants-to-fight-the-plague-of-cold-hearts-during-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope wants to fight the plague of \"cold hearts\" during Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has proposed fighting the <strong>plague of 'cold hearts' throughout Lent<\/strong>, which begins February 14.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican has presented the message the pope wrote for the occasion, in which he issues a warning: the 21st century Catholic must<strong> beware of vanity and being seduced by transient things <\/strong>that do not lead to happiness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CARD. PETER TURKSON<br \/>\nPrefect, Dicastery for Integral Development<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>'This is the content of the pope's message: pay attention to the obstacles that block our response to the call, to the invitation to love.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the 40 days the Church dedicates to preparing for Holy Week, Christians usually participate more intensely in prayer, almsgiving and fasting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pope has suggested rediscovering these cornerstones of Christianity, because they help prevent this disease: closing oneself in a selfish way. Pope Francis says <strong>this attitude ends up rejecting various people<\/strong> that some view as \u201cobstacles:\u201d from unborn children, to the foreigner or neighbor who does not meet predisposed expectations.<\/p>\n<p>In the message, the pope also mentioned the campaign '24 Hours for the Lord,' on March 9 and 10. It is an initiative which reinforces another central point of this liturgical time: confession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 6, 2018. He suggests rediscovering the value of three classic instruments of Christianity: prayer, almsgiving and fasting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lno1tobcQQ0","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmessaggioquaresimaeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bmessaggioquaresimaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49711"}],"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=49711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}