{"id":86339,"date":"2026-01-30T17:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=86339"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:05:02","slug":"the-bishops-of-colombia-call-for-respect-from-president-gustavo-petro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/01\/30\/the-bishops-of-colombia-call-for-respect-from-president-gustavo-petro\/","title":{"rendered":"The bishops of Colombia call for respect from President Gustavo Petro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These words by <strong>Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia<\/strong>, have generated controversy.<br><br><strong>GUSTAVO PETRO<\/strong><br>President of the Republic of Colombia<br><em>And I believe that Jesus made love\u2014yes, perhaps with Mary Magdalene\u2014because a man like that could not have existed without love, and the woman supported him until the very end.<br><br><\/em>The president made the statement during the inauguration of construction works for the <strong>San Juan de Dios Hospital<\/strong> in Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The response from the <strong>Colombian Bishops\u2019 Conference<\/strong> was swift.<br><em>We consider that no public official, nor any other person, is called to issue theological judgments regarding the religious or doctrinal convictions of citizens.<br><br><\/em>In addition, the bishops recommend that, in order to avoid mistaken ideas about the figure of Jesus, people turn to the primary source: <strong>the Gospels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trans. CRT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These words by Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia, have generated controversy. GUSTAVO PETROPresident of the Republic of ColombiaAnd I believe that Jesus made love\u2014yes, perhaps with Mary Magdalene\u2014because a man like that could not have existed without love, and the woman supported him until the very end. The president made the statement during the inauguration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":86340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RMrbZu__1PM","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpetrocolombiaeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bpetrocolombiaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86339"}],"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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86339"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86344,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86339\/revisions\/86344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}