{"id":71907,"date":"2026-04-16T11:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/i-thought-hell-would-freeze-over-before-i-agreed-with-the-pope-but-in-a-world-riven-by-cruelty-that-day-has-finally-come\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:55:29","slug":"i-thought-hell-would-freeze-over-before-i-agreed-with-the-pope-but-in-a-world-riven-by-cruelty-that-day-has-finally-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/i-thought-hell-would-freeze-over-before-i-agreed-with-the-pope-but-in-a-world-riven-by-cruelty-that-day-has-finally-come\/","title":{"rendered":"I thought hell would freeze over before I agreed with the pope. But in a world riven by cruelty, that day has finally come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a relief to see the pontiff decrying brutality, because it seems most current world leaders lack the necessary spine<\/p>\n<p>I have never been a religious or spiritual person, even though I grew up in a religious area and had friends (and strangers) throughout school and university trying to lure me into whatever prayer disguised as organised fun they were up to. I did try it out shortly for a desperate period when I was young, attempting to pray to a god I didn\u2019t really believe in to make me not gay, but blessedly he never answered.<\/p>\n<p>Despite my resistance to organised religion, I have always had a soft spot for nuns and their counterparts. The girlies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/21\/sign-up-for-five-great-reads-guardian-australias-wrap-of-our-best-summer-stories\">Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/apr\/16\/i-thought-hell-would-freeze-over-before-i-agreed-with-the-pope-but-in-a-world-riven-by-cruelty-that-day-has-finally-come\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a relief to see the pontiff decrying brutality, because it seems most current world leaders lack the necessary spine I have never been a religious or spiritual person, even though I grew up in a religious area and had friends (and strangers) throughout school and university trying to lure me into whatever prayer disguised &#8230; <a title=\"I thought hell would freeze over before I agreed with the pope. But in a world riven by cruelty, that day has finally come\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/i-thought-hell-would-freeze-over-before-i-agreed-with-the-pope-but-in-a-world-riven-by-cruelty-that-day-has-finally-come\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I thought hell would freeze over before I agreed with the pope. But in a world riven by cruelty, that day has finally come\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}