{"id":29358,"date":"2011-11-16T16:08:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/r-c-_bishops_welcome_dialogue_with_obama_as_concerns_remain\/"},"modified":"2011-11-16T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:08:40","slug":"r-c-_bishops_welcome_dialogue_with_obama_as_concerns_remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29358","title":{"rendered":"R.C. Bishops Welcome Dialogue with Obama as Concerns Remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The standoff between the White House and the nation\u2019s Catholic bishops over gay marriage and other hot-button issues may be easing after a quiet Oval Office meeting between President Obama and the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York and other prelates made it clear at their annual meeting on Monday (Nov. 14) that they still see an array of threats that pose an imminent danger to the church\u2019s freedom unless sufficient religious exemptions are granted.<\/p>\n<p>Dolan, president of the bishops\u2019 conference, described his Nov. 8 meeting with Obama\u201d\u201dfirst reported on Saturday by the National Catholic Reporter\u201d\u201das \u201cextraordinarily friendly.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/bishops-welcome-dialogue-with-obama-as-concerns-remain-cms-18832\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The standoff between the White House and the nation\u2019s Catholic bishops over gay marriage and other hot-button issues may be easing after a quiet Oval Office meeting between President Obama and the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29358\">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-29358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358","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=29358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}