{"id":34368,"date":"2012-09-03T02:35:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T02:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/reuters_catholic_church_is_in_desperate_need_of_renewal_cardinal_martini_in\/"},"modified":"2012-09-03T02:35:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T02:35:01","slug":"reuters_catholic_church_is_in_desperate_need_of_renewal_cardinal_martini_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34368","title":{"rendered":"(Reuters) Catholic Church is in desperate need of renewal: Cardinal Martini in his final interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former archbishop of Milan and papal candidate Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini said the Catholic Church was \u201c200 years out of date\u201d\u009d in his final interview before his death, published on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Martini, once favoured by Vatican progressives to succeed Pope John Paul II and a prominent voice in the church until his death at the age of 85 on Friday, gave a scathing portrayal of a pompous and bureaucratic church failing to move with the times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur culture has aged, our churches are big and empty and the church bureaucracy rises up, our rituals and our cassocks are pompous,\u201d\u009d Martini said in the interview published in Italian daily Corriere della Sera.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/life.nationalpost.com\/2012\/09\/02\/catholic-church-is-in-desperate-need-of-renewal-cardinal\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former archbishop of Milan and papal candidate Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini said the Catholic Church was \u201c200 years out of date\u201d\u009d in his final interview before his death, published on Saturday. Martini, once favoured by Vatican progressives to succeed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34368\">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":[39,50,42,200,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34368","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=34368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}