{"id":11825,"date":"2009-03-21T00:31:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T00:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/priests_become_bankers_as_italys_needy_turn_to_god\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T00:31:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T00:31:37","slug":"priests_become_bankers_as_italys_needy_turn_to_god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11825","title":{"rendered":"Priests Become Bankers as Italy\u2019s Needy Turn to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father Vincenzo Federico usually offers prayers when times are tough. As Italy lurches deeper into an economic crisis, the Roman Catholic priest is turning into a financial, rather than spiritual, adviser.<\/p>\n<p>After he guaranteed a loan of 10,000 euros ($12,700) to a family of four earlier this year, his mornings are back-to-back appointments with churchgoers seeking similar aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese days I feel like a banker,\u201d\u009d Federico, 40, said by telephone from his parish in the medieval village of Padula in southern Italy. \u201cIn 15 years of priesthood, I never thought that this is what I would wind up doing.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&#038;sid=a04PjQ71PNnk\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Vincenzo Federico usually offers prayers when times are tough. As Italy lurches deeper into an economic crisis, the Roman Catholic priest is turning into a financial, rather than spiritual, adviser. After he guaranteed a loan of 10,000 euros ($12,700)<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11825\">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":[39,40,50,42,149,200,448,154,88,108,364,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-economy","category-europe","category-italy","category-other-churches","category-poverty","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825","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=11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}