{"id":9684,"date":"2015-04-22T04:39:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T04:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9684"},"modified":"2015-04-22T04:39:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T04:39:28","slug":"a-view-of-the-us-from-the-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/a-view-of-the-us-from-the-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"A View of the US (from the Vatican)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Francis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Francis-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Francis\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Francis-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Francis.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Crux has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cruxnow.com\/church\/2015\/04\/20\/pope-will-honor-controversial-saint-to-be-at-romes-american-seminary\/\">piece<\/a> on the planned canonization of Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Spanish Franciscan celebrated as the founder of the Church on the West Coast of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>This caught my eye:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Uruguayan layman Guzman Carriquiry, secretary of the Vatican\u2019s Commission for Latin America, said that as a saint, Serra will help the Latino community in the US not to feel like \u201cbarely tolerated foreigners,\u201d but to recognize themselves in continuity with Hispanics who have lived in the country for centuries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Barely tolerated foreigners&#8221;? <\/p>\n<p>Carriquiry was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guzm%C3%A1n_Carriquiry_Lecour\">appointed<\/a> to this job by Pope Francis who hails, of course, from neighboring Argentina, and wrote the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/chasm-exists-between-pope-francis-and-liberation-theology\">preface<\/a> to one of Carriquiry&#8217;s books.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crux has a piece on the planned canonization of Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Spanish Franciscan celebrated as the founder of the Church on the West Coast of the United States. This caught my eye: Uruguayan layman Guzman Carriquiry, secretary of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/a-view-of-the-us-from-the-vatican\/\">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":[9,15],"tags":[998,403,410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684"}],"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=9684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9686,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684\/revisions\/9686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}