{"id":2481,"date":"2008-07-29T09:32:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/07\/29\/contrast-2\/"},"modified":"2008-07-29T09:32:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T14:32:37","slug":"contrast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/07\/contrast-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">In contrast to the rest of the writers for the National Catholic Reporter, John Allen Jr. turns in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/27\/opinion\/27allen.html?em&#038;ex=1217390400&#038;%2338;en=bf9a072439d2a80a&#038;%2338;ei=5087%0A\">good column on Humanae Vitae for the New York TImes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">A reader points to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/blog\/?p=2173\">comment section at Commonweal on this article<\/a>.  Pretty sad that a reporter being faithful to Church teaching is so derided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">I am a bit surprised that John Allen&#8217;s Sunday Times op-ed has not yet occasioned comment at dotCom. I found it disappointing and, at points, quite strange-I&#8217;ll try to say more about why later. In the meantime, pop over to Pontifications for David Gibson&#8217;s astute analysis:<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Yes not being a dissident on contraception is &#8220;disappointing&#8221; and &#8220;quite strange&#8221; for the Commonweal crowd.   I guess following Vatican II and giving &#8220;Religious submission of mind and of will&#8221; to this teaching is not for &#8220;thinking&#8221; Catholics. David Gibson&#8217;s astute analysis is nothing of the kind but pablum.  When you have to refer to Steinfell and McBrien you know you are on shaky ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In contrast to the rest of the writers for the National Catholic Reporter, John Allen Jr. turns in a good column on Humanae Vitae for the New York TImes. A&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-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","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=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}