{"id":39297,"date":"2013-07-30T15:15:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T15:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_wsj_front_page_article_on_the_ipad_edition_on_the_pope_and_the_churchs_se\/"},"modified":"2013-07-30T15:15:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T15:15:28","slug":"a_wsj_front_page_article_on_the_ipad_edition_on_the_pope_and_the_churchs_se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39297","title":{"rendered":"A WSJ Front Page article (on the Ipad Edition) on the Pope and The Church&#39;s Sexual Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis &#8220;is showing a deep respect for the human condition as it is, instead of approaching things in a doctrinal way,&#8221; said Alberto Melloni, a church historian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t a change in the church&#8217;s teaching,&#8221; said Rev. James Bretzke, a theology professor at Boston College. &#8220;What&#8217;s important is the change in style and emphasis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York echoed the pope on Monday, saying a priest&#8217;s homosexuality &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t matter to me as long as one is leading a virtuous and chaste life.&#8221; But, he added, &#8220;My worry is that we&#8217;re buying into the vocabulary that one&#8217;s person is one&#8217;s sexual identity and I don&#8217;t buy that and neither does the church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324354704578635401320888608.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis &#8220;is showing a deep respect for the human condition as it is, instead of approaching things in a doctrinal way,&#8221; said Alberto Melloni, a church historian. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a change in the church&#8217;s teaching,&#8221; said Rev. James Bretzke,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39297\">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":[42,175,168,154,637,364,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-pope-francis","category-roman-catholic","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297","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=39297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}