{"id":11622,"date":"2017-11-12T13:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T13:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=11622"},"modified":"2017-11-12T13:57:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T13:57:43","slug":"pope-reacts-to-document-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pope-reacts-to-document-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Reacts To Document Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em><strong>From Yahoo:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"canvas-image Mx(a) canvas-atom Mt(0) Mt(20px)--sm Mb(24px) Mb(22px)--sm\" data-type=\"image\" data-reactid=\"10\">\n<div class=\"Maw(100%) Pos(r) H(0)\" data-reactid=\"13\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" StretchedBox W(100%) H(100%) ie-7_H(a)\" src=\"https:\/\/oath-poc-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/fetch\/c_fill,f_auto,fl_lossy,g_auto:faces,q_auto,w_800\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en_us\/News\/ap_webfeeds\/2ffb943fc70a4af290bb7daf433f9f74.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-reactid=\"14\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"C($c-fuji-grey-h) Fz(13px) Py(5px) Lh(1.5)\" title=\"Pope Francis is silhouetted after his private audience with President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma, at the Vatican, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. (Tony Gentile\/Pool Photo via AP)\" data-reactid=\"17\">\n<div class=\"figure-caption\" data-reactid=\"18\">Pope Francis is silhouetted after his private audience with President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma, at the Vatican, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. (Tony Gentile\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><div class=\"Ov(h) Pos(r) Ff(ss) Mah(80px)\" data-reactid=\"16\"><button class=\"C($c-fuji-blue-1-b) Cur(p) W(100%) T(63px) Bgc(#fff) Ta(start) Fz(13px) P(0) Bd(0) O(0) Lh(1.5) Pos(a)\" data-reactid=\"19\"><span data-reactid=\"20\">More<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"canvas-body Wow(bw) Cl(start) Mb(20px) Lh(30px) Fz(18px) Ff(s) C(#000) D(i)\" data-reactid=\"21\">\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"22\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>VATICAN CITY (AP) \u2014 Pope Francis on Saturday reaffirmed the &#8220;primacy&#8221; of using one&#8217;s conscience to navigate tough moral questions in his first comments since he was publicly accused of spreading heresy by emphasizing conscience over hard and fast Catholic rules.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"23\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Francis issued a video message to a conference organized by Italian bishops on his controversial 2016 document on family life, &#8220;The Joy of Love.&#8221; The document has badly divided the Catholic Church, with some commentators warning that it risked creating a schism given its opening to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"24\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Francis told the conference that priests must inform Catholic consciences &#8220;but not replace them.&#8221; And he stressed the distinction between one&#8217;s conscience \u2014 where God reveals himself \u2014 and one&#8217;s ego that thinks it can do as it pleases.\u00a0&#8220;The contemporary world risks confusing the primacy of conscience, which must always be respected, with the exclusive autonomy of an individual with respect to his or her relations,&#8221; Francis said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em> <strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/pope-reaffirms-conscience-heresy-debate-divides-church-160315741.html\">For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/04\/tropical-rains-possible-tornadoes-threaten-half-us.html?intcmp=hpbt1\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em> <strong>[Return to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\">www.spiritdaily.com]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Michael%20H.%20Brown\/Documents\/My%20Webs\/indexhold.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/angellily.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>Pray always for purity and love<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">+++<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"24\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"church\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1510494920\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Pope Reacts To Document Dispute\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Yahoo: Pope Francis is silhouetted after his private audience with President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma, at the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1329,700],"class_list":{"0":"post-11622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-church","7":"tag-document","8":"tag-pope","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}