{"id":35471,"date":"2017-01-30T09:56:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=35471"},"modified":"2017-01-30T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:56:47","slug":"confident-kindness-makes-american-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/30\/confident-kindness-makes-american-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Confident Kindness Makes American Great…"},"content":{"rendered":"

A colleague sent me Cardinal Joseph Tobin’s statement of Jan. 27th regarding recent Executive Actions–a few lines of which I’ll share here:<\/p>\n

This nation has a long and rich history of welcoming those who have sought refuge because of oppression or fear of death.\u00a0 The Acadians, French, Irish, Germans, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Jews and Vietnamese are just a few of the many groups over the past 260 years whom we have welcomed and helped to find a better, safer life for themselves and their children in America.<\/p>\n

Even when such groups were met by irrational fear, prejudice and persecution, the signature benevolence of the United States of American eventually triumphed.<\/p>\n

That confident kindness is what has made, and will continue to make, America great.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His full statement can be found here, with the Archdiocese of Newark: Cardinal Joseph Tobin Statement<\/a><\/p>\n

As we heard in our first weekend this past weekend from the prophet Zephaniah:<\/p>\n

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth,
\nwho have observed his law;
\nseek justice, seek humility;
\nperhaps you may be sheltered…. (Zephaniah 2:3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth…perhaps you may be sheltered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[725,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-social-justice"],"yoast_head":"\nConfident Kindness Makes American Great... - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/30\/confident-kindness-makes-american-great\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Confident Kindness Makes American Great... - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth...perhaps you may be sheltered.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/30\/confident-kindness-makes-american-great\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-01-30T15:56:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pt.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"411\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"90\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Katharine E. 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