{"id":4622,"date":"2014-02-14T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T08:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2014-02-14T10:05:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T08:05:27","slug":"denis-hurley-in-2014-justice-peace-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/14\/denis-hurley-in-2014-justice-peace-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Hurley in 2014 \u2013 Justice &amp; Peace in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><b><i><a title=\"Jesuits in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuitinstitute.org.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4624 alignleft\" alt=\"Jesuits SA Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/jesuits-sa-logo.jpg?resize=131%2C131\" width=\"131\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jesuits-sa-logo.jpg?w=131&amp;ssl=1 131w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jesuits-sa-logo.jpg?resize=88%2C88&amp;ssl=1 88w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/a>By Anthony Egan SJ<\/i><\/b><i><\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Ten years ago this week, on 13 February 2004 to be precise, Denis Hurley OMI the retired Catholic archbishop of Durban died.\u00a0 As a priest and bishop, as a theologian and religious leader in the struggle against apartheid, he made perhaps the greatest contribution to putting Catholicism firmly in the South African public square.<\/i><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><i>Before him, the Catholic Church in South Africa was cautious and quite inward-looking. Prohibited during Dutch rule, coolly tolerated by the British, and treated with intense suspicion after the Union of South Africa in 1910, the Church was (unsurprisingly) cautious in challenging apartheid. With the majority of its clergy foreign-born and thus vulnerable to deportation it was encouraged even by the Vatican to \u2018play it safe\u2019 after the 1948 National Party election victory. But Hurley, a white South African by birth, Oblate priest and bishop since 1946, thought differently. He believed that it was a matter of faith to oppose apartheid. <a title=\"Denis Hurley in 2014 \" href=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/denis-hurley-in.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FULL TEXT in PDF<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anthony Egan SJ Ten years ago this week, on 13 February 2004 to be precise, Denis Hurley OMI the retired Catholic archbishop of Durban died.\u00a0 As a priest and bishop, as a theologian and religious leader in the struggle against apartheid, he made perhaps the greatest contribution to putting Catholicism firmly in the South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[124,406,748,793],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","tag-anthony-egan","tag-denis-hurley","tag-jesuit-institute-south-africa","tag-justice-and-peace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}