{"id":3315,"date":"2018-04-07T19:01:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T19:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2018-04-07T19:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T19:01:34","slug":"pope-didnt-dismiss-me-mpundul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/?p=3315","title":{"rendered":"Pope didn\u2019t dismiss me &#8211; Mpundul\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">By Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Outgoing Lusaka Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu says there is a lot of toxic material on social media and that people should be careful what they read there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">During a farewell mass held in his honour at the Roman Catholic Church&#8217;s Cathedral of the Child Jesus this morning, Archbishop Mpundu said contrary to what was circulating on social media, he had not been sacked by Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;How can I be sacked when I asked for it, &#8221; asked Archbishop Mpundu who has been replaced by Bishop Alick Banda from Ndola diocese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said instead he asked for an early retirement from episcopate responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;It was something I have been looking forward to since 2003,&#8221; said Archbishop Mpundu, who has also been described by his peers as a stalwart of social justice who headed the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops at a crucial time in the country&#8217;s socio-political history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff Reporter Outgoing Lusaka Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu says there is a lot of toxic material on social media and that people should be careful what they read there. During a farewell mass held in his honour at the Roman Catholic Church&#8217;s Cathedral of the Child Jesus this morning, Archbishop Mpundu said contrary to what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}