{"id":27401,"date":"2011-07-22T15:32:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T15:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_whats_behind_chinas_hard_line_against_catholics\/"},"modified":"2011-07-22T15:32:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T15:32:38","slug":"rns_whats_behind_chinas_hard_line_against_catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27401","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) What&#39;s Behind China&#39;s Hard Line Against Catholics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When China&#8217;s state-run Catholic Church ordained a new bishop for the Diocese of Shantou last Thursday (July 14) without the Vatican&#8217;s approval, it represented the latest step back from years of progress in a complex relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the main causes for the shift may have little to do with Rome, experts say, and instead lie in momentous geopolitical events in other regions of the globe, and deep social changes within China itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/20\/whats-behind-chinas-hard-_n_905110.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When China&#8217;s state-run Catholic Church ordained a new bishop for the Diocese of Shantou last Thursday (July 14) without the Vatican&#8217;s approval, it represented the latest step back from years of progress in a complex relationship. Yet the main causes<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27401\">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":[39,40,50,42,201,502,144,119,133,114,154,151,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-china","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27401","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=27401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}