{"id":3008,"date":"2017-12-30T18:02:46","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opdacia.org\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2017-12-30T18:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T17:02:46","slug":"ikke-ved-sverd-eller-krig-eller-vold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"Ikke ved sverd eller krig eller vold&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Above all, Catherine struggled for peace. She was convinced that `not by the sword or by war or by violence&#8217; could good be achieved, but `through peace and through constant humble prayer&#8217;. Yet she never sacrificed truth or justice for a cheap or easy peace. She reminded the rulers of Bologna that to seek peace without justice was like smearing ointment on a wound that needed to be cauterized. She knew that to be a peacemaker was to follow the steps of Christ, who made peace between God and humanity. And thus the peacemaker must sometimes face Christ&#8217;s own fate, and suffer rejection. The peacemaker is `another Christ crucified&#8217;. Our own world is also torn by violence: ethnic and tribal violence in Africa and the Balkans; the threat of nuclear war; violence in our cities and families. Catherine invites us to have the courage to be peacemakers, even if this means that we must suffer persecution and rejection ourselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Timothy Radcliffe: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.op.org\/sites\/www.op.org\/files\/public\/documents\/fichier\/radcliffe2000_catherine_en.pd\" target=\"_blank\">St Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) Patroness of Europe, <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.op.org\/sites\/www.op.org\/files\/public\/documents\/fichier\/radcliffe2000_catherine_en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A letter to the Dominican Order, published April 2000 to celebrate the naming of St Catherine of Siena as one of the Patrons of Europe<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above all, Catherine struggled for peace. She was convinced that `not by the sword or by war or by violence&#8217; could good be achieved, but `through peace and through constant humble prayer&#8217;. Yet she never sacrificed truth or justice for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/?p=3008\">Les videre <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,33,35,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artikler","category-forkynnelse","category-kirkens-sosiallaere","category-lest-og-delt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opdacia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}