{"id":28601,"date":"2011-10-05T15:20:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/james_v-_schall-_vargas_llosa_with_god_in_madrid\/"},"modified":"2011-10-05T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T15:20:55","slug":"james_v-_schall-_vargas_llosa_with_god_in_madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28601","title":{"rendered":"(The Catholic Thing) James V. Schall&#8211; Vargas Llosa with \u201cGod in Madrid\u201d\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019Osservatore Romano (English, September 21) reprinted an essay, \u201cGod in Madrid,\u201d\u009d by the Peruvian novelist and Nobel Prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa, from the Spanish paper El Pa\u00c3\u00ads about the meaning of the papal visit&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>[In the essay Llosa says that] contemporary culture is rather vapid, a kind of \u201clight entertainment.\u201d\u009d Within it is a \u201ccabal of incomprehensible and arrogant experts, who have taken refuge in unintelligible jargon, light years from common mortals.\u201d\u009d Culture has not replaced religion, particularly that religion originating in revelation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Most human beings suspect that the answers need a \u201chigher order\u201d\u009d of existence to locate the center of their lives. Atheism\u2019s self-satisfied defenders no longer stand on the solid ground they once assumed. Science itself is looking like it has to admit that the origin of the universe lies in some transcendent, extra-cosmic, intelligent source even to explain science&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecatholicthing.org\/columns\/2011\/vargas-llosa-with-god-in-madrid.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019Osservatore Romano (English, September 21) reprinted an essay, \u201cGod in Madrid,\u201d\u009d by the Peruvian novelist and Nobel Prize winner, Mario Vargas Llosa, from the Spanish paper El Pa\u00c3\u00ads about the meaning of the papal visit&#8230;. [In the essay Llosa says<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28601\">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":[39,50,42,200,154,155,113,636,108,364,424,446,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-poetry-literature","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-secularism","category-spain","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28601","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=28601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}