{"id":328,"date":"2003-04-06T08:28:20","date_gmt":"2003-04-06T13:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=328"},"modified":"2003-04-06T08:28:20","modified_gmt":"2003-04-06T13:28:20","slug":"who-are-we-to-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/04\/who-are-we-to-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are we to judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/english\/visualizza.phtml?sid=33793\"><b>Who are we to judge Christ&#8217;s Bride?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If Christ loved the Church, in spite of the iniquities she would commit, pretending to overlook them, who are we to see in the weaknesses and miseries of the Church a reason not to love her and even to judge her? Precisely we, who are so full of sin?&#8221; Father Cantalamessa asked today.<br \/>\n&#8220;Do we not think that Jesus knew the sins of the Church better than us?&#8221; the Capuchin continued. &#8220;Did he not know who he was dying for? Did he not know that among his disciples, one was betraying him, another denying him, and all fleeing?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;But he loved this real Church, not the imaginary and ideal one. He died &#8216;to make her holy and immaculate,&#8217; not because she was already holy and immaculate,&#8221; Father Cantalamessa said in the presence of John Paul II and the Curia members gathered in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel in the Apostolic Palace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/english\/visualizza.phtml?sid=33793\"><i>more&#8230;.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are we to judge Christ&#8217;s Bride? &#8220;If Christ loved the Church, in spite of the iniquities she would commit, pretending to overlook them, who are we to see in the weaknesses and miseries of the Church a reason not to love her and even to judge her? Precisely we, who are so full of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/04\/who-are-we-to-j\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who are we to judge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}