{"id":91846,"date":"2017-05-08T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=91846"},"modified":"2017-05-04T13:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T12:24:52","slug":"an-encyclical-that-will-dignify-humanity-an-anticipatory-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/05\/an-encyclical-that-will-dignify-humanity-an-anticipatory-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"An Encyclical That Will Dignify Humanity: An Anticipatory Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis`\u00a0contribution to\u00a0World Peace will never cease<br \/>\nif as the climax of his papacy\u00a0 he writes an Encyclical on\u00a0 Nonviolent\u00a0 Peace<br \/>\ninspired by Christ`s\u00a0nonviolent peacemaking<br \/>\nThis new papal letter to the Bishops: how influential will it be?<br \/>\nIt will help redefine Peace\u00a0and implement it as a globally\u00a0dignifying-unifying power<br \/>\nIt will help overcome tensions between\/among persons\/nations<br \/>\nand it will\u00a0 illuminate\u00a0\u00a0national governments efforts to ensure the right to nonviolent security to all their\u00a0citizens<br \/>\nMay this humble anticipatory Plea be\u00a0deserving of consideration\u00a0by\u00a0the Holy See.<br \/>\n_________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-84401\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/francisco-gomes-de-matos.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom H\u00e9lder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/em>Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<em> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, ABA Global Education (<a href=\"www.abaweb.org\">www.abaweb.org<\/a>). <\/em><em>He can be reached at <a href=\"fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com\">fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis` contribution to World Peace will never cease<br \/>\nif as the climax of his papacy  he writes an Encyclical on  Nonviolent  Peace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}