{"id":21497,"date":"2014-04-01T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/?p=21497"},"modified":"2017-02-08T22:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T05:06:34","slug":"meet-the-president-they-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publiccatholic\/2014\/04\/meet-the-president-they-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the President They Said &#8230;"},"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><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"BjxH9cBCUAAaJbZ.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2014\/03\/BjxH9cBCUAAaJbZ.jpg\" alt=\"BjxH9cBCUAAaJbZ\" width=\"466\" height=\"474\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Source: Photobucket<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was Pope Francis\u2019 tweet a couple of days after meeting President Obama. I wonder if there\u2019s any connection?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #292f33; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #f5f8fa;\"><strong><em>We live in a society that leaves no room for God; day by day this numbs our hearts.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"1978870_10201677952659888_1857741892_n.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/254\/2014\/04\/1978870_10201677952659888_1857741892_n.jpg\" alt=\"1978870 10201677952659888 1857741892 n\" width=\"497\" height=\"549\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Source: Photobucket<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, that the Pope backed the US Bishops in his discussions with our president. Hopefully, something got through.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pope, with Obama, backs U.S. bishops\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W95ofV_URTI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Photobucket \u00a0 This was Pope Francis\u2019 tweet a couple of days after meeting President Obama. I wonder if there\u2019s any connection? 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