{"id":6344,"date":"2021-01-06T11:32:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=6344"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:46:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:46:47","slug":"the-pope-wont-lift-luthers-excommunication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=6344","title":{"rendered":"The Pope won\u2019t lift Luther\u2019s excommunication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 500<sup>th <\/sup>Anniversary of Luther\u2019s excommunication was <strong>last Sunday, January 3, 2021<\/strong>. Last June around 30 Catholic and Protestant theologians from the Altenberg Ecumenical Discussion Group <em>(Altenberger \u00d6kumenischen Gespr\u00e4chskreises) <\/em>wrote to Pope Francis on Pentecost Sunday, urging him to repeal Pope Leo X&#8217;s penalty of excommunication against Luther. But Pope Francis refused to do it. Read a contemporary article at <a href=\"https:\/\/virtueonline.org\/pope-wont-lift-luthers-excommunication\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtue Online<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Why-not-rescind-the-condemnation-of-Luther.pdf\">thoughts on rescinding the excommunication<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 500<sup>th <\/sup>Anniversary of Luther\u2019s excommunication was <strong>last Sunday, January 3, 2021<\/strong>. Last June around 30 Catholic and Protestant theologians from the Altenberg Ecumenical Discussion Group <em>(Altenberger \u00d6kumenischen Gespr\u00e4chskreises) <\/em>wrote to Pope Francis on Pentecost Sunday, urging him to repeal Pope Leo X&#8217;s penalty of excommunication against Luther. But Pope Francis refused to do it. Read a contemporary article at <a href=\"https:\/\/virtueonline.org\/pope-wont-lift-luthers-excommunication\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtue Online<\/a> and our <a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Why-not-rescind-the-condemnation-of-Luther.pdf\">thoughts on rescinding the excommunication<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6344"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6352,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6344\/revisions\/6352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}