{"id":615,"date":"2011-11-20T04:22:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T04:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=615"},"modified":"2022-04-09T12:07:43","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T17:07:43","slug":"encyclical-funnies-july-12-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=615","title":{"rendered":"Encyclical Funnies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(July 12, 2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/oped071209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-616\" title=\"oped071209\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/oped071209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/oped071209.jpg 930w, https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/oped071209-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is another one which ran in <em>Solidarity<\/em>.\u00a0 Sometimes liberal Catholics are accused of being &#8220;Cafeteria Catholics&#8221;, picking and choosing which church doctrines they like.\u00a0 Well, liberals aren&#8217;t the only ones guilty of this.<\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while, the Roman Catholic Church remembers that it has a long tradition of being concerned with Social Justice.\u00a0 The Pope issued an encyclical letter entitled <em>&#8220;Caritas in Veritate&#8221;<\/em> (&#8220;Charity in Truth&#8221;) re-affirming this tradition, including the church&#8217;s long-standing support of trade unions.\u00a0 Conservatives who count the Pope as an ally on social issues like abortion and gay marriage tend to overlook this aspect of Catholic teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, being a Lutheran myself, I did this cartoon chiefly because it gave me the opportunity to draw a funny picture of the Pope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(July 12, 2009) This is another one which ran in Solidarity.\u00a0 Sometimes liberal Catholics are accused of being &#8220;Cafeteria Catholics&#8221;, picking and choosing which church doctrines they like.\u00a0 Well, liberals aren&#8217;t the only ones guilty of this. Every once in[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/?page_id=615\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":593,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-615","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-kurtwilcken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/615\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtoonsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}