{"id":85180,"date":"2026-08-05T08:16:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85180"},"modified":"2026-08-05T08:16:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:16:30","slug":"pontiff-at-knights-convention-promote-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/pontiff-at-knights-convention-promote-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pontiff At Knights Convention: Promote Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Catholic News:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV encouraged participants in the<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kofc.org\/get-involved\/events\/supreme-conventions\/2026\/\">144th Supreme Convention<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kofc.org\/\">Knights of Columbus<\/a>\u00a0to promote unity and charity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAt the Last Supper, Jesus prayed for his Apostles, that they all would be one,\u201d Pope Leo said in a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/events\/event.dir.html\/content\/vaticanevents\/en\/2026\/8\/4\/videomessaggio-cavalieri-colombo.html\">video message<\/a> relea<\/span>sed on August 4, the first day of the convention.\u00a0\u201cI encourage all of you to continue bearing witness to that concord which Jesus so ardently desires in your families, your parishes and in the wider communities where you live and serve,\u201d the Pope continued. \u201cIn an age all too often marked by division and pointed rhetoric, there is a great need for prophets of harmony who seek to build bridges and strive to reconcile opposing positions wherever possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Catholic News: Pope Leo XIV encouraged participants in the\u00a0144th Supreme Convention\u00a0of the\u00a0Knights of Columbus\u00a0to promote unity and charity. \u201cAt.<\/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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85180","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=85180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85181,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85180\/revisions\/85181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}