{"id":26031,"date":"2011-05-05T17:15:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-vatican_praises_bloggers_as_churchs_public_opinion\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T17:15:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T17:15:35","slug":"rns-vatican_praises_bloggers_as_churchs_public_opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26031","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;Vatican Praises Bloggers as Church\u2019s \u201d\u02dcPublic Opinion&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his opening remarks, the Vatican\u2019s top spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, conceded that he himself was not a blogger but that his life has \u201cchanged\u201d\u009d since he started receiving an \u201cinformal\u201d\u009d digest of Catholic blogs every morning.<br \/>\nLombardi said the Vatican will launch a multimedia news portal (www.news.va) in the coming months to harness the potential of expanding social networks. Catholic bloggers, he added, are influential because they give voice to \u201cthe public opinion in the Church.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/2011\/05\/vatican-praises-bloggers-as-churchs-public-opinion.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his opening remarks, the Vatican\u2019s top spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, conceded that he himself was not a blogger but that his life has \u201cchanged\u201d\u009d since he started receiving an \u201cinformal\u201d\u009d digest of Catholic blogs every morning. Lombardi said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26031\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031","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=26031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}