{"id":33974,"date":"2012-08-10T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eni_rns_top_church_historian_diarmaid_macculloch_sees_catholic_schism_ahead\/"},"modified":"2012-08-10T18:00:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T18:00:02","slug":"eni_rns_top_church_historian_diarmaid_macculloch_sees_catholic_schism_ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33974","title":{"rendered":"(ENI\/RNS) Top church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch sees Roman Catholic schism ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Influential church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch said he believes Christianity faces a bright future, but predicted the Roman Catholic Church will undergo a major schism over its moral and social teaching.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christianity, the world&#8217;s largest religion, is rapidly expanding &#8212; by all indications, its future is very bright,&#8221; said MacCulloch, 60, professor of church history at Oxford University and an Anglican deacon. His latest book, &#8220;Silence in Christian History,&#8221; will be published in the fall by Penguin.<\/p>\n<p>MacCulloch said in an interview that &#8220;there are also many conflicts&#8221; within Christianity, &#8220;and these are particularly serious in the Roman Catholic church, which seems on the verge of a very great split over the Vatican&#8217;s failure to listen to European Catholics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/culture\/arts-and-media\/top-church-historian-sees-catholic-schism-ahead\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Influential church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch said he believes Christianity faces a bright future, but predicted the Roman Catholic Church will undergo a major schism over its moral and social teaching. &#8220;Christianity, the world&#8217;s largest religion, is rapidly expanding &#8212; by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33974\">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":[48,39,50,42,186,200,154,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-church-history","category-europe","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33974","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=33974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}