{"id":10456,"date":"2008-12-31T19:31:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T19:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/catholic_leader_defends_gordon_brown_from_anglican_bishops_criticism\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T19:31:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T19:31:54","slug":"catholic_leader_defends_gordon_brown_from_anglican_bishops_criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10456","title":{"rendered":"Catholic leader defends Gordon Brown from Anglican bishops&#39; criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Murphy-O&#8217;Connor rejected the Anglican bishops views on BBC Radio Four&#8217;s Today Programme, suggesting they were playing a &#8220;blame game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of blaming the Government for materialism and social problems, the cardinal said that responsibility should be shared more widely. Ordinary people and churchmen also bear some of the blame, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we are going to accuse people of immorality it is much further than the Government, it is the whole country,&#8221; Cardinal Murphy-O&#8217;Connor said. &#8220;I am not too happy with the blame game because if we say that there has to be a &#8220;conversion&#8221;, then I always start with myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/labour\/4029423\/Catholic-leader-defends-Gordon-Brown-from-Anglican-bishops-criticism.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Murphy-O&#8217;Connor rejected the Anglican bishops views on BBC Radio Four&#8217;s Today Programme, suggesting they were playing a &#8220;blame game.&#8221; Instead of blaming the Government for materialism and social problems, the cardinal said that responsibility should be shared more widely.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10456\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,40,50,42,74,389,635,149,199,154,151,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}