{"id":20423,"date":"2010-06-18T02:59:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T02:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_roman_catholic_church_has_launched_a_pr_campaign_ahead_of_the_popes_vis\/"},"modified":"2010-06-18T02:59:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T02:59:07","slug":"the_roman_catholic_church_has_launched_a_pr_campaign_ahead_of_the_popes_vis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20423","title":{"rendered":"The Roman Catholic Church has launched a PR campaign ahead of the Pope\u2019s visit to Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new booklet aims to explain the purpose and importance of the papal trip and the Church\u2019s contributions to society for those who are only aware of \u201ccurrent controversies\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Catholics in England and Wales, The Most Rev Vincent Nichols, said that the four-day tour in September will be a \u201cvery significant moment\u201d\u009d for the country particularly in straitened economic times.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop of Westminster said: \u201cPeople that I speak to recognise that as a society we are entering into a period, maybe a prolonged period, which is going to be difficult. In times of difficulty, we need all the inner resources that we can muster and the resource of religious faith is a crucially important one for giving society stability and generosity, especially in times of financial constraint.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/7830341\/Catholic-Church-launches-guide-to-Popes-visit-amid-controversies-fears.html\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new booklet aims to explain the purpose and importance of the papal trip and the Church\u2019s contributions to society for those who are only aware of \u201ccurrent controversies\u201d\u009d. The head of Catholics in England and Wales, The Most Rev<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20423\">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":[39,50,42,199,89,154,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-media","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20423","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=20423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}