{"id":1201,"date":"2004-04-19T15:43:53","date_gmt":"2004-04-19T20:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2004-04-19T15:43:53","modified_gmt":"2004-04-19T20:43:53","slug":"in-saturdays-ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/04\/in-saturdays-ne\/","title":{"rendered":"In Saturday&#8217;s Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>there was an editorial by Ellen Goodman about how it is important to Catholics to vote following Catholic teaching-and somehow this is wrong:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/AspStories\/story.asp?storyID=239470&#038;category=OPINION&#038;newsdate=4\/17\/2004>&#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKeep eye on Washington, not Communion<br \/>\nFirst published: Saturday, April 17, 2004<br \/>\nBOSTON &#8212; What next? Will we have a political reporter to cover John Forbes Kerry at each Sunday Mass from now to November? Will there be a Holy Communion beat? A wafer watch?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\nYou know, the things she is whining about are really none of her business. I was rather flabergasted because I would never tell someone they were wrong to vote along with their religious and moral conscience.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe second was John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who addressed the anti-Catholic prejudice in a campaign speech in 1960 when he said famously, &#8220;I do not speak for my church on public matters and the church does not speak for me.&#8221;<br \/>\nBack then, most Catholics were relieved to break down the stereotypes about them as people who followed orders from Rome and weren&#8217;t allowed to think for themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see, so it is much better we allow her to do the thinking for us instead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there was an editorial by Ellen Goodman about how it is important to Catholics to vote following Catholic teaching-and somehow this is wrong:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}