{"id":9203,"date":"2018-11-13T15:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9203"},"modified":"2018-11-13T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T20:15:58","slug":"quote-for-the-day-145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9203","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inexplicably, discussing Pope Francis&#8217; unexpected decision to prevent the American bishops from adopting a policy aimed at preventing sexual abuse, <a href=\"https:\/\/albertmohler.com\/2018\/11\/13\/briefing-11-13-18\/\" target-\"_blank\">Albert Mohler<\/a> gets something right.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Here you are looking at the magisterial hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">acting as it has throughout the centuries, and that is to protect the Church and to protect itself<\/span>. And that is something that is now pretty much understood. Even as the Vatican has told the American Catholic bishops, they can&#8217;t even clean up their house, they can&#8217;t take action until after an international meeting of the presidents of the bishops&#8217; councils.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unhappily, Mohler fails to address two more important issues:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>The same shadow hangs over Protestant churches, most especially conservative and fundamentalist churches (like his own denomination, the Southern Baptists), because &#8230;<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>The sex abuse crisis inheres in the degradation of Christianity&#8217;s death-wish theology.<\/ol>\n<p>Neither Catholicism nor Protestantism will deal adequately with the sex abuse problem until they stop trying to crush everybody into obedient brainless automatons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inexplicably, discussing Pope Francis&#8217; unexpected decision to prevent the American bishops from adopting a policy aimed at preventing sexual abuse, Albert Mohler gets something right. Here you are looking at the magisterial hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church acting as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9203\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9207,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9203\/revisions\/9207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}