{"id":3142,"date":"2008-02-27T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T18:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/02\/27\/crying-censorship\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T18:24:35","slug":"crying-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/02\/crying-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Crying censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\"><a href=\"http:\/\/insightscoop.typepad.com\/2004\/2008\/02\/luke-timothy-jo.html\">Carl Olson has the background<\/a> on the story of Bishop<br \/>\nBraxton of Belleville, Illinois banning an upcoming talk by biblical scholar<br \/>\nand professor of theology Luke Timothy Johnson that was being sponsored by<br \/>\nCommonweal. Commonweal is of course crying censorship even though when it<br \/>\ncomes to writers totally faithful to the magisterium consistently appearing<br \/>\nin their magazine it seems oddly that there point of view are censored by<br \/>\nthem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Carl goes over the writings of Luke Timothy Johnson that while quite solid<br \/>\nin many areas leave the rails when it comes to women priests, homosexuality,<br \/>\nPope John Paul II&#8217;s Theology of the Body, contraception, the Virgin Birth,<br \/>\nand even casts into doubt the Eucharist and other sacraments as not being<br \/>\nessential. His view seems to be if it is not in the Creed it is not<br \/>\nessential, unless of course it is is women&#8217;s ordination and same sex<br \/>\nmarriage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Carl also goes into Bishop Braxton&#8217;s rather impressive resume and the<br \/>\nnumerous articles that he has written which have even appeared in Commonweal.<br \/>\nHe has been a rather polarizing figure since he was appointed bishop there. A<br \/>\ngroup of 50 priests had signed a letter protesting his selection and there<br \/>\nfeeling that they were not consulted. There were also some financial moves by<br \/>\nthe bishop that were called into question. But mostly people have been upset<br \/>\nwhen he has reacted in a manner totally consistent with the faith such as<br \/>\nthis occasion and the time he refused to give the sacrament of Confirmation<br \/>\nto a 20 year old women who he considered had not studied enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Olson has the background on the story of Bishop Braxton of Belleville, Illinois banning an upcoming talk by biblical scholar and professor of theology Luke Timothy Johnson that was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","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=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}