{"id":51417,"date":"2015-09-02T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/f_th_surviving_on_satire_of_the_terrible_new_sexual_ethic-reinhard_marx_ag\/"},"modified":"2015-09-02T18:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:00:04","slug":"f_th_surviving_on_satire_of_the_terrible_new_sexual_ethic-reinhard_marx_ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51417","title":{"rendered":"(F Th) Surviving on satire of the terrible new sexual ethic&#8211;Reinhard Marx, Agony Uncle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Muddled:<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be so hard on yourself. As the editors of the traditions gathered together under the name \u201cJeremiah\u201d\u009d wrote: \u201cThe heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?\u201d\u009d Pascal, though only a Frenchman, expressed a similar sentiment when he said, \u201cThe heart has its reasons that reason knows not.\u201d\u009d What these authors, separated by centuries, agree upon is this: you cannot control whom you love.<\/p>\n<p>The important thing is that we find a way for you to feel welcome in the Church in your clandestine extramarital relationship with Magdalena. Is it right to call a committed, though unorthodox, loving relationship adultery? I think not. So enjoy the blessings of love (and love!) and do not let small-hearted naysayers keep you from communion!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/mullarkey\/2015\/09\/reinhard-marx-agony-uncle\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Muddled: Don&#8217;t be so hard on yourself. As the editors of the traditions gathered together under the name \u201cJeremiah\u201d\u009d wrote: \u201cThe heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?\u201d\u009d Pascal, though only a Frenchman, expressed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51417\">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":[39,168,133,98,125,177,129,112,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-men","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51417","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=51417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}