{"id":29353,"date":"2011-11-16T00:09:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T00:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vatican_cardinal_urges_priests_to_spice_up_dull_irrelevant_sermons\/"},"modified":"2011-11-16T00:09:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T00:09:38","slug":"vatican_cardinal_urges_priests_to_spice_up_dull_irrelevant_sermons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29353","title":{"rendered":"Vatican cardinal urges priests to spice up \u201d\u02dcdull, irrelevant\u2019 sermons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Vatican cardinal has appealed to clergy to liven up \u201cdull, flavourless\u201d\u009d sermons in an address at a conference in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, claimed that homilies had become \u201cirrelevant\u201d\u009d to worshippers who were used to the thrill and excitement of modern technology such as the television and the internet. He said: \u201cThe advent of televised and computerised information requires us to be compelling and trenchant, to cut to the heart of the matter, resort to narratives and colour.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2011\/11\/10\/vatican-cardinal-urges-priests-to-spice-up-%E2%80%98dull-irrelevant%E2%80%99-sermons\/\"\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Vatican cardinal has appealed to clergy to liven up \u201cdull, flavourless\u201d\u009d sermons in an address at a conference in Rome. Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, claimed that homilies had become \u201cirrelevant\u201d\u009d to worshippers who<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29353\">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":[48,42,435,154,184,439,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29353","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=29353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}