{"id":46216,"date":"2014-10-05T22:08:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T22:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_vatican_synod_tests_the_popes_vision_of_a_more_merciful_church\/"},"modified":"2014-10-05T22:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T22:08:41","slug":"npr_vatican_synod_tests_the_popes_vision_of_a_more_merciful_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46216","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Vatican Synod Tests The Pope&#39;s Vision Of A More Merciful Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has summoned bishops from all over the world to Rome to discuss issues concerning families \u201d\u201c including hot-button issues like artificial contraception and gay civil unions.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting, called a synod, opened on Sunday and is seen as a test of Francis&#8217; vision of a more merciful Church.<\/p>\n<p>Not since the landmark Second Vatican Council half a century ago has a church meeting raised so much hope among progressive Catholics \u201d\u201d and so much apprehension among conservatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/10\/05\/353839373\/vatican-synod-tests-the-popes-vision-of-a-more-merciful-church?sc=tw\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has summoned bishops from all over the world to Rome to discuss issues concerning families \u201d\u201c including hot-button issues like artificial contraception and gay civil unions. The meeting, called a synod, opened on Sunday and is seen as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46216\">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":[48,39,50,42,175,186,168,200,133,448,98,154,184,177,637,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46216","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-anthropology","category-church-history","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-history","category-italy","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-pope-francis","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46216","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=46216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}