{"id":37778,"date":"2013-04-12T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/steven_giovangelo_chimes_in_on_the_dominicans\/"},"modified":"2013-04-12T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T16:05:27","slug":"steven_giovangelo_chimes_in_on_the_dominicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37778","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times Letter) Steven Giovangelo Chimes in on the Dominicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Please note the article to which this responds was posted <a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/index.php\/t19\/article\/48058\">here on the blog<\/a> last week&#8211;KSH).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The \u201960s secularizing and \u201cmodernizing\u201d\u009d that orders went through, discarding habits, common prayer life and so on, were a strategic error for which many orders today have paid the price: drastically shrinking numbers and remaining members who are in their 70s and older.<\/p>\n<p>But some traditional Dominican communities, male and female, are seeing a significant uptick in their applications from younger people. The same can be said for some branches of Franciscan friars and sisters. I don\u2019t think that this is an accident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/04\/11\/opinion\/in-the-priesthood-old-is-new.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Please note the article to which this responds was posted here on the blog last week&#8211;KSH). The \u201960s secularizing and \u201cmodernizing\u201d\u009d that orders went through, discarding habits, common prayer life and so on, were a strategic error for which many<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=37778\">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":[36,48,39,42,186,66,133,435,154,155,184,108,364,424],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-church-history","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-history","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37778","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=37778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}