{"id":12230,"date":"2012-03-12T18:24:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T22:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12230"},"modified":"2012-03-12T18:24:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T22:24:15","slug":"upon-this-poll-i-will-build-my-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/03\/upon-this-poll-i-will-build-my-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Upon this poll I will build my Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame has declared in the<em><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/15\/birth-control-and-the-challenge-to-divine-authority\/\">\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<\/a><\/em>that the bishops no longer decide morality in the Church and that \u201cthe immorality of birth control is no longer a teaching of the Catholic Church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gary Gutting, Endowed Chair in Philosophy, makes the typical muddles of how the teaching magisterium is actually the &#8220;faithful&#8221; and not the bishops in union with the Pope. \u00a0Of course &#8220;faithful&#8221; is defined as those who agree with my position. \u00a0That a majority opinion constitutes truth and you have to wonder why we aren&#8217;t all Arians if this is so. \u00a0If the Israelites got to vote up and down the Ten Commandments would any have survived? \u00a0As G.K. Chesterton stated &#8220;Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become\u00a0<em>fashions<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh and will anybody be surprised that they professor teaches from the works of Peter Singer?<\/p>\n<p>* The headline <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org\/2012\/03\/12\/notre-dame-prof-the-immorality-of-birth-control-is-no-longer-a-teaching-of-the-catholic-church\/\">is taken from the fine quip<\/a> at the end of the post from the Cardinal Newman Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame has declared in the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0that the bishops no longer decide morality in the Church and that \u201cthe immorality of birth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12231,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230\/revisions\/12231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}