{"id":49882,"date":"2017-12-27T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/12\/27\/pope-francis-theres-a-false-respect-for-the-non-christian-that-is-distorting-christmas\/"},"modified":"2017-12-27T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T12:00:51","slug":"pope-francis-theres-a-false-respect-for-the-non-christian-that-is-distorting-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/12\/27\/pope-francis-theres-a-false-respect-for-the-non-christian-that-is-distorting-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: There's a \u201cfalse respect\u201d for the non-Christian that is distorting Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pope <strong>warned of the risk of Christmas losing its essence<\/strong> in light of excessive respect shown for non-believers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cToday, we are witnessing a type of \u201cdistortion\u201d of Christmas. In the name of a false respect toward those who are non-Christians, many times the intent to marginalize the faith goes unnoticed, eliminating any kind of reference to Jesus' birth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thus, Pope Francis recommended that <strong>Christians rediscover the meaning of Christmas<\/strong>, to understand why Jesus is the best gift these holidays.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cJesus is the gift from God for us, and if we receive him, we can also be a gift for others, primarily those who have never received attention or tenderness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope took a break from his catechesis on the Eucharist to focus on Christmas during this time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was also time during the audience for these dancing polar bears to provide some amusement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These circus performers also presented some impressive acrobatics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 27, 2017. The pope asked Christians to rediscover the meaning of Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ug15AJcvgqM","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza2712eng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/budienza2712int.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49882"}],"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=49882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}