{"id":33036,"date":"2012-06-14T01:20:48","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T01:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/australian_archbishop_barry_hickey_church_under_attack_for_its_stance_on_ma\/"},"modified":"2012-06-14T01:20:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T01:20:48","slug":"australian_archbishop_barry_hickey_church_under_attack_for_its_stance_on_ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33036","title":{"rendered":"Australian Archbishop Barry Hickey: Church under attack for its stance on marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church is under attack &#8220;partly because of the sins of some of its leaders, but mainly because of its uncompromising teachings&#8221; on marriage, said an Australian archbishop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Faced with this, the church can either compromise and face irrelevance, or continue to teach Christ&#8217;s truth about marriage, life and love, and pray that the world will listen,&#8221; Archbishop Barry Hickey, retired archbishop of Perth, told pilgrims at the International Eucharistic Congress June 12.<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop told a packed conference hall that &#8220;only a few years ago one could safely assume that our understanding of marriage was generally accepted,&#8221; but this is no longer the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1202458.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church is under attack &#8220;partly because of the sins of some of its leaders, but mainly because of its uncompromising teachings&#8221; on marriage, said an Australian archbishop. &#8220;Faced with this, the church can either compromise and face irrelevance,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33036\">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":[39,50,42,204,98,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-australia-nz","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33036","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=33036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}