{"id":30428,"date":"2014-02-14T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=30428"},"modified":"2014-02-14T12:04:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:04:41","slug":"the-church-outlasts-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/the-church-outlasts-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church outlasts oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<div title=\"Page 3\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Catholic-Church-outlasting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30429 alignleft\" alt=\"Catholic Church outlasting\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Catholic-Church-outlasting-290x300.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Catholic-Church-outlasting-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Catholic-Church-outlasting.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>I saw this picture the other day and thought: &#8220;how clever, how true.&#8221; Every form of oppression has collapsed on itself rather than bring true human freedom. Reflecting on the historical legacy of Communism, Cardinal Ratzinger writes,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one can any longer seriously deny that what was supposed to be a movement to bring freedom was, along with National Socialism, the greatest system of slavery in modern history: the extent of the cynical destruction of human beings and of the world is very often passed over in shame and silence, but no one can deny it any longer&#8221; (<em>Truth and Tolerance<\/em>, 233).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this picture the other day and thought: &#8220;how clever, how true.&#8221; Every form of oppression has collapsed on itself rather than bring true human freedom. Reflecting on the historical legacy of Communism, Cardinal Ratzinger writes, &#8220;No one can any longer seriously deny that what was supposed to be a movement to bring freedom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/02\/the-church-outlasts-oppression\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Church outlasts oppression<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[31982,32081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30430,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30428\/revisions\/30430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}