{"id":46352,"date":"2014-10-13T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn_says_vatican_proposes_stunning_shift_in_theological_anthropology\/"},"modified":"2014-10-13T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:30:39","slug":"cnn_says_vatican_proposes_stunning_shift_in_theological_anthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46352","title":{"rendered":"CNN says a Vatican report proposes &#39;stunning&#39; shift in theological anthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using strikingly open language, an interim report of a Vatican synod on modern family life says the church needs to welcome and appreciate gays, and offers a solution for divorced and remarried Catholics who want to receive Communion.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference to present the report, Cardinal Tagle of the Philippines said the most discussed topics at the Synod so far were the impact of poverty, war and immigration on families.<\/p>\n<p>But one veteran Vatican journalist called the newly proposed language on gays and civil marriages a \u201cpastoral earthquake.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegarding homosexuals, it went so far as to pose the question whether the church could accept and value their sexual orientation without compromising Catholic doctrine,\u201d\u009d said John Thavis, a former Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2014\/10\/13\/vatican-proposes-stunning-shift-on-gays-lesbians\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/wireStory\/bishops-acknowledging-reality-catholic-families-26152677\">An AP article is here&#8211;read it all also<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using strikingly open language, an interim report of a Vatican synod on modern family life says the church needs to welcome and appreciate gays, and offers a solution for divorced and remarried Catholics who want to receive Communion. At a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46352\">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":[39,42,576,175,168,98,125,154,177,637,129,108,364,112,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-men","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-pope-francis","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46352","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=46352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}