{"id":5122,"date":"2006-03-20T17:25:52","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T22:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/03\/20\/ten-questions\/"},"modified":"2006-03-20T17:25:52","modified_gmt":"2006-03-20T22:25:52","slug":"ten-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/03\/ten-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">Well one thing for sure Cardinal-designate Levada is not quite as capable as Cardinal Ratzinger was when he was the prefect of the CDF. Read these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/europe\/magazine\/article\/0,13005,901060327-1174661,00.html\">ten question Time magazine put to him<\/a> and try to imagine then-Cardinal Ratzinger answering any of them like that. Here are just some of the examples that stick out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"><strong>The Roman Catholic Church is akin to an absolute monarchy. should the Vatican be more democratic?<\/strong> The question presumes that there is not open discussion in the Vatican. The Pope expects us to give him our best insights. You must remember that, yes, this is a monarchy, but the monarch is elected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">The Church is only a monarchy in the sense that Jesus is King and head of the Church. The Church is really a sacred hierarchy (rule by high priest) where of course Jesus is that high priest with Peter&#8217;s successor being the head of the episcopal college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\"><strong>You raised the issue in the synod about whether politicians should be granted communion if they support policies counter to Church teachings<\/strong>. There are certain teachings that as Catholics we have to accept as part of Jesus&#8217; Gospel. When you see Catholic politicians who favor abortion rights &#8230; you have to ask yourself how this person squares this with his personal faith. Catholic politicians need to take this seriously. Maybe they need to say I&#8217;m not able to practice my faith and be a public representative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">What you can&#8217;t practice your faith and be a public representative? All I can say is that I hope his replies were not written answers in response to questions. Maybe they called him before he had his first cup of coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well one thing for sure Cardinal-designate Levada is not quite as capable as Cardinal Ratzinger was when he was the prefect of the CDF. Read these ten question Time magazine&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-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","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=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}