{"id":3100,"date":"2011-07-18T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3100"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:21:39","slug":"an-essay-the-preferential-option-for-the-poor-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"An essay &#8220;The Preferential option for the Poor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the June\/July issue of First Things, an interfaith magazine founded by the late Fr. John Neuhaus (who converted to Catholicism in his 50&#39;s &#8211; he was a Lutheran Minister) which I really like.<\/p>\n<p>RR Reno is a college prof.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2011\/05\/the-preferential-option-for-the-poor\" target=\"_self\">\u201cPreferential respect\u201d became the handier slogan \u201cpreferential option,\u201d a formulation that first emerged from liberation theologies in South America but has percolated into a great deal of Catholic pronouncement on social ethics in recent decades. It captures a fundamental Christian imperative. When we think about politics and culture, our first question should be: \u201cWhat are the needs of the poor?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the June\/July issue of First Things, an interfaith magazine founded by the late Fr. John Neuhaus (who converted to Catholicism in his 50&#39;s &#8211; he was a Lutheran Minister) which I really like. RR Reno is a college prof. \u201cPreferential respect\u201d became the handier slogan \u201cpreferential option,\u201d a formulation that first emerged from liberation [&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-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","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=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5460,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}