{"id":12847,"date":"2009-05-17T09:02:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T09:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religion_and_ethics_newsweekly_the_obama_notre_dame_controversy\/"},"modified":"2009-05-17T09:02:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T09:02:05","slug":"religion_and_ethics_newsweekly_the_obama_notre_dame_controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12847","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Ethics Newsweekly: the Obama Notre Dame Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father THOMAS REESE (Senior Fellow, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University): I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a scandal. Universities should be places where we have discussion, debate, where people of different views come together to argue, and when the bishops get involved in trying to censure people, ban speakers \u201d\u201d I think it\u2019s not helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop BURKE: This is a Catholic institution which is bound by \u201d\u201d its title is Catholic, its identity is Catholic \u201d\u201d to uphold the moral law, and that\u2019s the source of the scandal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/may-15-2009\/obama-notre-dame-controversy\/2963\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father THOMAS REESE (Senior Fellow, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University): I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a scandal. Universities should be places where we have discussion, debate, where people of different views come together to argue, and when the bishops get involved<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12847\">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":[39,40,42,111,96,616,154,151,667,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-education","category-life-ethics","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12847","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=12847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}