{"id":1920,"date":"2006-09-11T18:26:22","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T22:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/11\/pontiff-admonishes-catholics-not-to-lose-their-souls-to-science\/"},"modified":"2006-09-11T18:26:22","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T22:26:22","slug":"pontiff-admonishes-catholics-not-to-lose-their-souls-to-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/09\/pontiff-admonishes-catholics-not-to-lose-their-souls-to-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Pontiff Admonishes Catholics Not to Lose Their Souls to Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-pope11sep11,0,2394088.story?coll=la-home-world\">Los Angeles Times<\/a> Tracy Wilkinson September 11, 2006<\/p>\n<p>MUNICH, Germany \u2014 Under glorious skies in this Bavarian capital where he once lived, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday warned Roman Catholics against letting modern concerns drown out God&#8217;s word, adding that technology alone could not solve the world&#8217;s problems.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An overreliance on science has made too many Catholics deaf to the teachings of the church, the pope said in a homily that scolded Western European societies for an increasingly secular focus. Faith is needed to combat diseases such as AIDS, he said.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>Although he has described the trip as a personal one, the former Joseph Ratzinger is also determined to boost a faith that by most measures is flagging in Europe, where Catholics have wandered from the church and Muslims immigrants have diluted Christian demographics.<\/p>\n<p>Catholics must make God &#8220;the force shaping our lives and actions,&#8221; the pope said, adding that many people did not know how or did not like the image of God they had come to know.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented cynics who considered &#8220;mockery of the sacred to be an exercise of freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-pope11sep11,0,2394088.story?coll=la-home-world\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times Tracy Wilkinson September 11, 2006 MUNICH, Germany \u2014 Under glorious skies in this Bavarian capital where he once lived, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday warned Roman Catholics against letting modern concerns drown out God&#8217;s word, adding that technology alone could not solve the world&#8217;s problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}