{"id":8120,"date":"2012-12-20T13:51:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T13:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=8120"},"modified":"2012-12-20T13:51:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T13:51:50","slug":"social-justice-and-all-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/social-justice-and-all-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Justice and All That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Benedict-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Benedict\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Benedict-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Benedict.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Pope, writing in the <em>Financial Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/articolo.asp?c=649225\">today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Christians work for more equitable sharing of the earth\u2019s resources out of a belief that, as stewards of God\u2019s creation, we have a duty to care for the weakest and most vulnerable. Christians oppose greed and exploitation out of a conviction that generosity and selfless love, as taught and lived by Jesus of Nazareth, are the way that leads to fullness of life. Christian belief in the transcendent destiny of every human being gives urgency to the task of promoting peace and justice for all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The EUObserver <a href=\"http:\/\/euobserver.com\/tickers\/118584\">today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Vatican has been handed a billion euro tax break after the EU ruled that it would be &#8220;absolutely impossible&#8221; to claw back unpaid property taxes. Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia had previously ruled that the Catholic church&#8217;s exemption from paying tax on over 4,700 buildings from 2006-2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/12\/19\/eu-italy-tax-idUSL5E8NJ8RB20121219\">breached competition rules<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope, writing in the Financial Times today: Christians work for more equitable sharing of the earth\u2019s resources out of a belief that, as stewards of God\u2019s creation, we have a duty to care for the weakest and most vulnerable. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/social-justice-and-all-that\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[26,711,1],"tags":[410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8120\/revisions\/8124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}