{"id":31956,"date":"2012-04-13T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_rns_story_on_the_new_usccb_statement-catholic_bishops_issue_rallying_cr\/"},"modified":"2012-04-13T18:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:00:50","slug":"an_rns_story_on_the_new_usccb_statement-catholic_bishops_issue_rallying_cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31956","title":{"rendered":"An RNS Story on the new USCCB Statement&#8211;Catholic bishops issue rallying cry for &#39;religious freedom&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we face today the prospect of unjust laws, then Catholics in America, in solidarity with our fellow citizens, must have the courage not to obey them,&#8221; the statement says. &#8220;No American desires this. No Catholic welcomes it. But if it should fall upon us, we must discharge it as a duty of citizenship and an obligation of faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The document cites a number of other perceived threats to religious freedom besides the contraception policy, such as harsh immigration laws that could impede the church&#8217;s social ministry and university policies targeting campus student religious groups.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also makes a concerted effort to portray the Catholic campaign as bound up with the fight to defend American values from an overbearing central government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/story\/2012-04-12\/catholic-bishops-religious-freedom\/54225480\/1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If we face today the prospect of unjust laws, then Catholics in America, in solidarity with our fellow citizens, must have the courage not to obey them,&#8221; the statement says. &#8220;No American desires this. No Catholic welcomes it. But if<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31956\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,168,617,114,616,154,151,667,108,364,618,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-house-of-representatives","category-law-legal-issues","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-senate","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31956","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=31956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}