{"id":2172,"date":"2008-08-30T07:41:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T12:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2008-08-30T07:41:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T12:41:45","slug":"quote-of-the-da-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/quote-of-the-da-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Both major U.S. political parties have good people in their ranks. Neither party fully represents a Catholic way of thinking about social issues. One of the lessons we need to learn from the last fifty years is that a preferred American &#8220;Catholic&#8221; party doesn&#8217;t exist. The sooner Catholics feel at home in <i>any<\/i> political party, the sooner that party begins to take them for granted and then to ignore their concerns. Party loyalty is a dead end. It is a lethal form of laziness. Issues matter. Character matters. Acting on principal matters. The sound bite and the slogan do not matter. They belong to a vocabulary of the herd and human beings deserve better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>~Archbishop Chaput in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Render-Unto-Caesar-Catholic-Political\/dp\/0385522282\/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1220096856&#038;sr=8-1\"><i>Render Unto Caesar<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nI hate when books start giving you good quotes in like the first three pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both major U.S. political parties have good people in their ranks. Neither party fully represents a Catholic way of thinking about social issues. One of the lessons we need to learn from the last fifty years is that a preferred American &#8220;Catholic&#8221; party doesn&#8217;t exist. The sooner Catholics feel at home in any political party,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/08\/quote-of-the-da-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quote of the Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commonplace-book","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","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=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}