{"id":50108,"date":"2017-11-06T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/11\/06\/pope-francis-in-angelus-abused-authority-leads-to-corruption\/"},"modified":"2017-11-06T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T12:20:00","slug":"pope-francis-in-angelus-abused-authority-leads-to-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/11\/06\/pope-francis-in-angelus-abused-authority-leads-to-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis in Angelus: \u201cAbused authority leads to corruption\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like every Sunday, Pope Francis prayed the Angelus in front of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square and <strong>reflected on the day's Gospel<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pope said, as in the times of the Pharisees, there are still people who <strong>take advantage of their power and authority<\/strong> to oppress others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cAuthority is helpful, but if it is abused, it becomes oppressive. It doesn't allow people to grow and creates a climate of distrust and hostility; it also drives corruption.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis explained that Christians must not live \u201cbased on appearance\u201d or \u201clook down on\u201d the rest, but rather must be<strong> humble and \u201cdocile to the love that comes from God.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThere must be a simple, fraternal attitude among us. We are all brothers and must not overpower the rest in any way or look down on them. No, we are all brothers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pope added that <strong>modesty is a fundamental characteristic of living \u201caccording to Jesus' teachings,\u201d <\/strong>and that personal qualities must be put at the service of others.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pope invited Christians to be humble, following Jesus' example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":50109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7G4k3QJ62L0","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus0511eng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bangelus0511int.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50108"}],"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=50108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}