{"id":72860,"date":"2018-12-24T22:55:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T21:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/24\/pope-uses-christmas-homily-to-decry-modern-consumerism\/"},"modified":"2018-12-24T22:55:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T21:55:23","slug":"pope-uses-christmas-homily-to-decry-modern-consumerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=72860","title":{"rendered":"Pope uses Christmas homily to decry modern consumerism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pontiff tells pilgrims at mass in Vatican City that mankind has become \u2018greedy and voracious\u2019Pope Francis has attacked the \u201cinsatiable greed\u201d of today\u2019s consumerism, using his Christmas homily to urge people to make \u201csharing and giving\u201d more a part of their lives.\u201cMankind became greedy and voracious,\u201d the leader of the world\u2019s 1.3 billion Catholics said in an address to thousands of followers in St Peter\u2019s Basilica in Vatican City on Christmas Eve. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/dec\/24\/pope-francis-uses-christmas-homily-to-decry-modern-consumerism\" target=\"_blank\">Pope uses Christmas homily to decry modern consumerism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pontiff tells pilgrims at mass in Vatican City that mankind has become \u2018greedy and voracious\u2019Pope Francis has attacked the \u201cinsatiable greed\u201d of today\u2019s consumerism, using his Christmas homily to urge people to make \u201csharing and giving\u201d more a part of their lives.\u201cMankind became greedy and voracious,\u201d the leader of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}