{"id":14996,"date":"2015-02-05T18:08:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=14996"},"modified":"2015-02-05T18:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:08:41","slug":"evidence-of-that-catholic-funny-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2015\/02\/evidence-of-that-catholic-funny-bone\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence of that Catholic funny bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another thing I love about the Church is the humor of the faithful. You just have to look at any list of patron saints and find the ironic funny bone of the <em>Body of Christ<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I find this information regarding the reason for the naming of a Catholic parish hilarious.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though Nevada was the last of the continental 48 states to establish its own diocese, between 85% and 95% of the state\u2019s Catholics live in the Diocese of Las Vegas. The city\u2019s Catholic roots extend as far back as 1908, when its oldest Church, <a href=\"http:\/\/stjoanlv.org\/\">St. Joan of Arc<\/a>, was built for a town of just 700 people \u2014 only 70 of whom were Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it was founded, Las Vegas was a railroad town,\u201d explained Father Timothy Wehn, a 47-year resident of Las Vegas and pastor of the diocese\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaclv.org\/\">Guardian Angel Cathedral<\/a>, \u201cand one of the Catholics living there had purchased a plot of land specifically for a church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though Joan of Arc hadn\u2019t yet been canonized in 1908, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lawrence_Scanlan\">Bishop Lawrence Scanlan<\/a> of Salt Lake City \u2014 the diocese overseeing Las Vegas at the time \u2014 insisted the church be named for her. Among the bishop\u2019s reasons for the name was Las Vegas\u2019 blistering summer temperatures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/daily-news\/sin-citys-secret-catholicism-is-booming\"><em>Sin City\u2019s Secret: Catholicism Is Booming<\/em><\/a> by <em>Chris Kudialis<\/em> is also interesting.\u201c \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well \u201c<em>Law came in, to increase the trespass; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,<\/em>\u201d. (Romans 5:20)<\/p>\n<p>Still it must be difficult for Catholic parishes to raise funds in Las Vegas, I mean can <em>Bingo<\/em> really compete?<\/p>\n<p>There is one aspect of Las Vegas that mirrors a sacrament. That is the <em>Sacrament of Confession<\/em> in that \u201cWhat happens in confession, stays in confession.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another thing I love about the Church is the humor of the faithful. You just have to look at any list of patron saints and find the ironic funny bone&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996","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=14996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14997,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14996\/revisions\/14997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}