{"id":23318,"date":"2010-12-07T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/st-_josephs_university_panel_speakers_say_catholic_laypersons_are_key\/"},"modified":"2010-12-07T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T18:00:40","slug":"st-_josephs_university_panel_speakers_say_catholic_laypersons_are_key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23318","title":{"rendered":"St. Joseph&#39;s University Panel Speakers say Catholic laypersons are key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With American Roman Catholics leaving their church in record numbers, it will be up to laypersons &#8211; not just bishops and priests &#8211; to revitalize the faith, a panel of speakers told an overflow audience Sunday at St. Joseph&#8217;s University.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The church has acted like a lazy monopoly,&#8221; the Rev. Thomas Reese told the crowd at Mandeville Hall, noting that one in three baptized Catholics now leaves the church in adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>Reese, a senior fellow at Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University and former editor of the Jesuit magazine America, was one of three panelists invited by the university to discuss &#8220;The Future of the Church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/local\/20101206_Speakers_say_Catholic_laypersons_are_key.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With American Roman Catholics leaving their church in record numbers, it will be up to laypersons &#8211; not just bishops and priests &#8211; to revitalize the faith, a panel of speakers told an overflow audience Sunday at St. Joseph&#8217;s University.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23318\">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":[48,42,437,154,184,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318","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=23318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}