{"id":2775,"date":"2013-03-17T22:05:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T22:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2025-09-28T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T18:45:05","slug":"pope-warns-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2775","title":{"rendered":"Pope warns against \u201cthe worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This won&#39;t sit well with some people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/pope-francis-warns-against-demonic-worldliness\" target=\"_self\">\u201cAnyone who does not pray to the Lord prays to the devil,\u201d Francis said, quoting Leon Bloy, a French writer who died in 1917, and who converted from agnosticism to Catholicism.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">When he said Mass for the College of Cardinals in<br \/>\nthe Sistine Chapel on Thursday, newly elected Pope Francis I warned<br \/>\nthese princes of the church against professing what he called \u201cthe<br \/>\nworldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cAnyone who does not pray to the Lord prays to the<br \/>\ndevil,\u201d Francis said, quoting Leon Bloy, a French writer who died in<br \/>\n1917, and who converted from agnosticism to Catholicism. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWhen we profess Christ without the Cross, we are not disciples of<br \/>\nthe Lord, we are worldly: we may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes,<br \/>\nbut not disciples of the Lord,\u201d the pope told the cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/francesco\/homilies\/2013\/documents\/papa-francesco_20130314_omelia-cardinali_en.html\" target=\"_self\">text of his homily<\/a> &#8211; and it&#39;s quite short. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This won&#39;t sit well with some people. \u201cAnyone who does not pray to the Lord prays to the devil,\u201d Francis said, quoting Leon Bloy, a French writer who died in 1917, and who converted from agnosticism to Catholicism. When he said Mass for the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, newly elected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775","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=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8515,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions\/8515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}