{"id":1204,"date":"2017-05-19T19:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T19:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2017-05-23T08:00:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T08:00:47","slug":"the-general-election-a-letter-to-catholics-from-their-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2017\/05\/19\/the-general-election-a-letter-to-catholics-from-their-bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"The General Election &#8211; A Letter to Catholics from their Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1223\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gen-elec-insert.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1223\" class=\"wp-image-1223\" src=\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gen-elec-insert_Page_1-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click here to read the letter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As Catholics and citizens of the UK, our lives are shaped by the vision inspired by our faith. Pope Francis says:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cAn authentic faith . . . always involves a deep desire to change the world, to values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it. We love this magnificent planet on which God has put us, and we love the human family which dwells here, with all its tragedies and struggles, its hopes and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. The earth is our common home and all of us are brothers and sisters.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium \u00a7183<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gen-elec-insert.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the letter: click here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Catholics and citizens of the UK, our lives are shaped by the vision inspired by our faith. Pope Francis says: \u201cAn authentic faith . . . always involves a deep desire to change the world, to values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it. We love this magnificent planet on which God has put us, and we love the human family which dwells here, with all its tragedies and struggles, its hopes and aspirations, its strengths and weaknesses. The earth is our common home and all of us are brothers and sisters.\u201d\u00a0 Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium \u00a7183 Read the letter: click here. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}