{"id":1174,"date":"2020-06-04T04:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:51:28","slug":"pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis: Condemns \u2018Sin\u2019 of Racism, Says \u2018Nothing Gained by Violence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"114\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e20263e94dfba4200b-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12827\" title=\"Pope francis reading glasses\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From Zenit, an international Catholic News Service &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zenit.org\/articles\/popes-appeal-for-george-floyd-condemns-sin-of-racism-says-nothing-gained-by-violence\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Popes%20Appeal%20for%20George%20Floyd%20Condemns%20Sin%20of%20Racism%20Says%20Nothing%20Gained%20by%20Violence%201591201468%20ZNP&amp;utm_content=Popes%20Appeal%20for%20George%20Floyd%20Condemns%20Sin%20of%20Racism%20Says%20Nothing%20Gained%20by%20Violence%201591201468%20ZNP+CID_e6636a417e3ae0d3c4d8e23854efce75&amp;utm_source=Editions&amp;utm_term=--if%20mso%20endif----if%20mso%20----%20--%20endif--\">\u201cDear brothers and sisters in the United States,\u201d he began, \u201cI have witnessed with great concern the disturbing social unrest in your nation in these past days, following the tragic death of Mr George Floyd.\u201d \u201cMy friends,\u201d the Pope said, \u201cwe cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life. At the same time, we have to recognize that \u201cthe violence of recent nights is self-destructive and self-defeating. Nothing is gained by violence and so much is lost\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Zenit, an international Catholic News Service &#8211; \u201cDear brothers and sisters in the United States,\u201d he began, \u201cI have witnessed with great concern the disturbing social unrest in your nation in these past days, following the tragic death of Mr George Floyd.\u201d \u201cMy friends,\u201d the Pope said, \u201cwe cannot tolerate or turn a blind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12828,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/12828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}