{"id":93004,"date":"2015-06-22T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=93004"},"modified":"2015-06-22T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:49:11","slug":"laudato-si-on-the-dignity-of-the-human-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/06\/laudato-si-on-the-dignity-of-the-human-person.html","title":{"rendered":"Laudato Si on the Dignity of the Human Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Those who are committed to defending human dignity can find in the Christian faith the deepest reasons for this commitment. How wonderful is the certainty that each human life is not adrift in the midst of hopeless chaos, in a world ruled by pure chance or endlessly recurring cycles! The Creator can say to each one of us: \u201cBefore I formed you in the womb, I knew you\u201d (<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\">Jer\u00a0<\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1:5). We were conceived in the heart of God, and for this reason \u201ceach of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary\u201d.<\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html#_ftn39\" name=\"_ftnref39\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">[39]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who are committed to defending human dignity can find in the Christian faith the deepest reasons for this commitment. How wonderful is the certainty that each human life is not adrift in the midst of hopeless chaos, in a world ruled by pure chance or endlessly recurring cycles! 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