{"id":2619,"date":"2013-12-13T12:18:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T12:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:50:39","slug":"popes-mesage-to-usa-america-is-called-to-be-a-land-prepared-to-accept-life-at-every-stage-from-the-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2619","title":{"rendered":"Pope’s message to USA: America is called to be \u201ca land prepared to accept life at every stage, from the mother\u2019s womb to old age.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a message sent to the Americas on Dec. 12, a day the Catholic Church celebrates in honor of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, Pope Francis, who was named Person of the Year this week by Time magazine, said that America is called to be \u201ca land prepared to accept life at every stage, from the mother\u2019s womb to old age.\u201d <\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cMary\u2019s embrace showed what America \u2013 North and South \u2013 is called to be: a land where different peoples come together; a land prepared to accept human life at every stage, from the mother\u2019s womb to old age; a land which welcomes immigrants, and the poor and the marginalized, in every age. A land of generosity,\u201d said<\/a> the Pope.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and it is also my message, the message of the Church," he added.  "I ask all the people of the Americas to open wide their arms, like the Virgin, with love and tenderness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMary\u2019s embrace showed what America \u2013 North and South \u2013 is called to be: a land where different peoples come together; a land prepared to accept human life at every stage, from the mother\u2019s womb to old age; a land which welcomes immigrants, and the poor and the marginalized, in every age. A land of generosity,\u201d said<\/a> the Pope.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and it is also my message, the message of the Church," he added.  "I ask all the people of the Americas to open wide their arms, like the Virgin, with love and tenderness.\u201d<\/p>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/barbara-boland\/pope-america-should-be-prepared-accept-human-life-every-stage-mother-s#sthash.VhLdVZBg.7Bys1qN4.dpuf<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cMary\u2019s embrace showed what America \u2013 North and South \u2013 is called to be: a land where different peoples come together; a land prepared to accept human life at every stage, from the mother\u2019s womb to old age; a land which welcomes immigrants, and the poor and the marginalized, in every age. A land of generosity,\u201d said<\/a> the Pope.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is the message of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and it is also my message, the message of the Church," he added.  "I ask all the people of the Americas to open wide their arms, like the Virgin, with love and tenderness.\u201d<\/p>\n

– See more at: http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/barbara-boland\/pope-america-should-be-prepared-accept-human-life-every-stage-mother-s#sthash.VhLdVZBg.7Bys1qN4.dpuf<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a message sent to the Americas on Dec. 12, a day the Catholic Church celebrates in honor of the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, Pope Francis, who was named Person of the Year this week by Time magazine, said that America is called to be \u201ca land prepared to accept life […]<\/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-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","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=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8401,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/8401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}