{"id":4073,"date":"2013-08-19T11:56:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2013-08-19T11:56:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:56:53","slug":"proclaim-the-truth-and-suffer-for-the-truth-and-if-necessary-even-die-for-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;proclaim the truth and suffer for the truth, and if necessary, even die for the truth.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;The role of the priest is to proclaim the truth and suffer for the truth, and if necessary, even die for the truth.&#8221;<\/i> &#8211; Polish priest-martyr Jerzy Popieluszko<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jim Kushiner from <a href=\"http:\/\/touchstonemag.com\/\">Touchstone Magazine<\/a> has written <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/lz28ns4\">a powerful essay<\/a> interacting with a new documentary on the life and death of Jerzy Popieluszko, a Polish priest in the 1980\u2019s. Kushiner examines the work of Popieluszko as an example of how Christians should stand firm, not in hatred but in love. There is much wisdom (&amp; challenge!) for us here concerning living in challenging times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The role of the priest is to proclaim the truth and suffer for the truth, and if necessary, even die for the truth.&#8221; &#8211; Polish priest-martyr Jerzy Popieluszko Jim Kushiner from Touchstone Magazine has written a powerful essay interacting with a new documentary on the life and death of Jerzy Popieluszko, a Polish priest in &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4073\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;proclaim the truth and suffer for the truth, and if necessary, even die for the truth.&#8221;&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,38,39,27,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}