{"id":39913,"date":"2013-09-05T17:28:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/london_times_more_of_the_roman_catholic_faithful_are_seeking_out_confession\/"},"modified":"2013-09-05T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:28:33","slug":"london_times_more_of_the_roman_catholic_faithful_are_seeking_out_confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39913","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) More of the Roman Catholic faithful are seeking out confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although none suspected that the faithful had desisted from sin, for years priests have reported a decline in the number of Catholics seeking out the sacrament of confession.<\/p>\n<p>The trend now appears to have been reversed, with a surge in confessions, particularly among the young.<\/p>\n<p>The rise is being credited to the visit to Britain of Benedict XVI in 2010 and the election this year of Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/faith\/article3859006.ece\">Read it all<\/a> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although none suspected that the faithful had desisted from sin, for years priests have reported a decline in the number of Catholics seeking out the sacrament of confession. The trend now appears to have been reversed, with a surge in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39913\">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":[48,39,50,42,199,154,184,108,364,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39913","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-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39913","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=39913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}