{"id":11490,"date":"2009-02-27T19:58:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cardinal_cormac_murphy_oconnor_many_believe_christianity_is_out_of_step_wit\/"},"modified":"2009-02-27T19:58:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:58:23","slug":"cardinal_cormac_murphy_oconnor_many_believe_christianity_is_out_of_step_wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11490","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O&#39;Connor: &#39;Many believe Christianity is out of step with society&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Speaking at London&#8217;s Westminster Cathedral, he went on to warn against a false pessimism within the Church and said it &#8220;has a perspective and a wisdom which society cannot afford to exclude or silence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;The greatest danger for us at the moment is to let ourselves believe what secular culture wants us to believe about ourselves, namely, that we are becoming less and less influential and in decline.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/4860553\/Cardinal-Cormac-Murphy-OConnor-Many-believe-Christianity-is-out-of-step-with-society.html\">Read it all<\/a> and more importantly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rcdow.org.uk\/lectures\/?tab=transcript\">read the whole lecture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Speaking at London&#8217;s Westminster Cathedral, he went on to warn against a false pessimism within the Church and said it &#8220;has a perspective and a wisdom which society cannot afford to exclude or silence.&#8221; He said: &#8220;The greatest danger for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11490\">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":[39,50,42,199,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490","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=11490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}