{"id":40499,"date":"2013-10-12T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T02:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_catholic_confession_is_good_for_the_soul_-_says_archbishop_of_can\/"},"modified":"2013-10-12T02:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T02:00:51","slug":"telegraph_catholic_confession_is_good_for_the_soul_-_says_archbishop_of_can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40499","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) &#39;Catholic&#39; confession is good for the soul &#8211; says Archbishop of Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Rev Justin Welby advised churchgoers that it could be an \u201cenormously powerful\u201d\u009d experience to unburden themselves to a confessor, even if it was not always a \u201cbunch of laughs\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came as he addressed the heads of other churches \u201d\u201c including the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England Wales, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols \u201d\u201c about divisions between Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Although Archbishop Welby comes from the evangelical wing of Anglicanism, his personal spiritual director is a Swiss Roman Catholic priest, Fr Nicolas Buttet, and he is a strong advocate of Catholic worship styles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10368140\/Catholic-confession-is-good-for-the-soul-says-Archbishop-of-Canterbury.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Most Rev Justin Welby advised churchgoers that it could be an \u201cenormously powerful\u201d\u009d experience to unburden themselves to a confessor, even if it was not always a \u201cbunch of laughs\u201d\u009d. His comments came as he addressed the heads of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40499\">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":[36,48,382,175,67,168,184,177,173,164,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-justin-welby","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-sacramental-theology","category-soteriology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499","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=40499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}