{"id":1083,"date":"2013-11-09T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/11\/in-disfigured-man-pope-francis-saw-jesus.html"},"modified":"2013-11-09T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:13:00","slug":"in-disfigured-man-pope-francis-saw-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2013\/11\/in-disfigured-man-pope-francis-saw-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"In Disfigured Man, Pope Francis Saw Jesus"},"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><div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 26px;padding: 0px 0px 24px;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">What did the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-faith\/wp\/2013\/11\/06\/photos-pope-francis-embraces-disfigured-man-covered-in-boils\/?tid=pm_national_pop\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pope see when he embraced a disfigured man in St. Peter\u2019s Square<\/a>? If you read news\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-faith\/wp\/2013\/11\/06\/photos-pope-francis-embraces-disfigured-man-covered-in-boils\/?tid=pm_national_pop\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a>\u00a0about the scene, the answer is clear: the pope saw someone who was suffering; someone in need of compassion.And certainly that is what many of us saw as well. We witnessed an elevated religious leader touch someone whom many would find untouchable.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 26px;padding: 0px 0px 24px;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Many of us also briefly imagined how much we ourselves would yearn to be embraced if we were covered in boils and knotted in pain. Compassion is indeed a Christian response, and it is different from pity. Compassion realizes the kinship that all human beings share. Compassion also acknowledges what can often seem to be the terrible caprice of life. Some people are born beautiful in ways that all can recognize; others are born and they look different\u2014and for that very reason they are looked on differently as \u201cother.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 26px;padding: 0px 0px 24px;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">When we feel compassion for someone, we understand that there but for the unfathomable grace of God goes anyone and everyone.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;border: 0px;line-height: 26px;padding: 0px 0px 24px;vertical-align: baseline\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/on-faith\/wp\/2013\/11\/07\/in-disfigured-man-pope-francis-saw-jesus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did the\u00a0pope see when he embraced a disfigured man in St. Peter\u2019s Square? 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