{"id":4787,"date":"2004-11-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/16\/2004-11-16-catholic-spokesperson-expresses-deep-pain-over-arrest\/"},"modified":"2004-11-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T12:00:00","slug":"2004-11-16-catholic-spokesperson-expresses-deep-pain-over-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/16\/2004-11-16-catholic-spokesperson-expresses-deep-pain-over-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Spokesperson Expresses &#8220;Deep Pain&#8221; Over Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/923395.cms\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>KOCHI, INDIA, November 15, 2004: The Catholic church in Kerala on Monday expressed &#8220;deep pain&#8221; at the arrest of Kanchi pontiff Jayendra Saraswathi, but held that truth and morality have to be seen objectively, irrespective of religious affiliations. &#8220;Spiritual leaders are light to other ordinary persons and they must live accordingly,&#8221; church spokesman Father Paul Thelekat said in the first reaction of the church to the arrest of the seer. &#8220;I am deeply pained at the arrest of the Sankaracharya, as if my Archbishop has been arrested. Because both are spiritual and moral leaders,&#8221; he said. The civil authorities have to be very cautious while taking such steps, lest they tarnish the good name of the spiritual leaders of this country, he said.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceKOCHI, INDIA, November 15, 2004: The Catholic church in Kerala on Monday expressed &#8220;deep pain&#8221; at the arrest of Kanchi,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}