{"id":795,"date":"2019-06-28T12:32:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T12:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2019-06-28T12:33:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T12:33:59","slug":"reflection-30-june-2019-c-thirteenth-sunday-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"Reflection 30 June 2019 (C) Thirteenth  Sunday of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Reflection &amp; Dialogue<\/em><\/strong><em>: Christians are\ncalled to freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s readings call for\nreflection on a question that is as old as human freedom and revealed religion,\nnamely the place of freedom of thought and action in the society in which we\nlive. It is consoling that the question has been treated by Jesus (John\u2019s\nGospel) and Paul before our day. The question has become more acute since the\nphilosophical and cultural movement and thought of the eighteenth century,\ncommonly known as the Enlightenment. With this came a desire and movement to\nhave human thought and activity determined by what the human mind and senses\ncan perceive without acceptance of involvement from divine revelation. The\nsituation has become more acute in our own day when this movement has become\nconnected with an active atheism. Contemporary atheism holds that religion, of\nits very nature, thwarts man\u2019s emancipation through economic and social\nliberation by raising man\u2019s hopes in a future life, thus both deceiving him and\ndiscouraging him from working for a better form &nbsp;of life on earth. The movement would have\nreligious education removed from primary schools: pupils should be taught how\nto think, not what to think. This is something with which we will have to live,\nand it is good that believers are aware of the issues involved. The Church is\nwell aware of this situation and deals with it at some length in the <em>Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the\nModern World<\/em> (paragraphs 19-21) of Vatican II (1965), and the new <em>Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em> (par.\n2123-2126), documents usefully consulted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflection &amp; Dialogue: Christians are called to freedom. Today\u2019s readings call for reflection on a question that is as old as human freedom and revealed religion, namely the place of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sundayscriptureonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}