{"id":1472,"date":"2018-10-10T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:44:02","slug":"the-pope-no-room-for-party-preferences-in-christian-life-pope-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1472","title":{"rendered":"The Pope: &#8220;No room for party preferences in Christian life, Pope says&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3718bb6200c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pope Francis image\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3718bb6200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3718bb6200c-150wi\" style=\"width: 140px;\" title=\"Pope Francis image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I agree, speaking as a registered independent. Of course I get belittled for that as some of my Democrat Party loyalty first friends think I&#39;m a closet Republican. My Party right or wrong, but right or wrong, my Party? Party loyalty &#8211; not a good place to store your emotional capital. This article is from the summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/vatican\/2018\/06\/21\/no-room-for-party-preferences-in-christian-life-pope-says-in-geneva\/\">GENEVA &#8211; Living the Christian faith requires a surrender of individualism, including one\u2019s particular party preferences, in exchange for a full-throttled commitment to Jesus Christ, Pope Francis said on Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Offering a reflection on St. Paul\u2019s letter to the Galatians, Francis said that Christian life requires sacrifice, because it demands that personal interests, such as ethnic ties or party lines no longer become central to one\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cTo choose to belong to Jesus before belonging to Apollos or Cephas, to belong to Christ before being \u2018Jew or Greek,\u2019 to belong to the Lord before identifying with right or left, to choose, in the name of the Gospel, our brother or our sister over ourselves\u2026in the eyes of the world, this often means operating at a loss,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>HIt the link above for the whole, short article, off of <a href=\"https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/\">CRUX<\/a>, which is a pretty good Catholic web magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I agree, speaking as a registered independent. Of course I get belittled for that as some of my Democrat Party loyalty first friends think I&#39;m a closet Republican. My Party right or wrong, but right or wrong, my Party? Party loyalty &#8211; not a good place to store your emotional capital. This article is from [&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-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","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=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7713,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/7713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}