{"id":127819,"date":"2019-06-24T12:49:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=127819"},"modified":"2019-06-24T23:52:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T23:52:32","slug":"bishops-blast-politicians-at-corpus-cristi-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/06\/24\/bishops-blast-politicians-at-corpus-cristi-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishops blast politicians at Corpus Cristi celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Monse\u00f1or-Freddy-Breton-El-Caribe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Monse\u00f1or-Freddy-Breton-El-Caribe.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Monse\u00f1or-Freddy-Breton-El-Caribe-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>Archbishop Freddy Breton \/ El Caribe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Archbishop of Santiago, Freddy Breton, and the former Archbishop, Ramon Benito de la Rosa y Carpio, openly decried the nearly complete loss of trust in the nation&#8217;s politicians. Breton expressed regret that many see politics as a great business and that to enter the political arena is to become rich. He said that it was imperative to reverse this sort of thinking, acting with honesty. He added that this sort of understanding will cease when politicians do not show off new wealth and luxuries that cannot be explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The archbishop said that the country has been overcome with politics. He said that &#8220;the only people that can talk are those that can show signs of suffering for their people, like Juan Pablo Duarte.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He asked: &#8220;If we apply this criterion, what politician will be left standing?&#8221; Referring to the recent introduction of gender studies into the school curriculum, he noted that after centuries, we &#8220;now need courses to know when a man is a man and a woman is a woman? As if all the centuries of humanity were not enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elcaribe.com.do\/2019\/06\/21\/panorama\/region-norte\/arzobispos-critican-la-credibilidad-de-la-clase-politica\/\">El Caribe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 June 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Santiago, Freddy Breton, and the former Archbishop, Ramon Benito de la Rosa y Carpio, openly decried the nearly complete loss of trust in the nation&#8217;s politicians. Breton expressed regret that many see politics as a great business and that to enter the political arena is to become rich. He said that it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/06\/24\/bishops-blast-politicians-at-corpus-cristi-celebration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127840,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127819\/revisions\/127840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}