{"id":6364,"date":"2004-11-25T11:39:40","date_gmt":"2004-11-25T16:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/11\/25\/whats-in-the-flask-father\/"},"modified":"2004-11-25T11:39:40","modified_gmt":"2004-11-25T16:39:40","slug":"whats-in-the-flask-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/11\/whats-in-the-flask-father\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#039;s in the flask Father?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">A Catholic priest has run afoul of the law in Colorado Springs, Colo., after being caught with an open container of sacramental wine while performing Mass outside an abortion clinic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The Rev. Bill Carmody was warned by a police officer after the cop asked him what he was holding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;The police officer asked me what&#8217;s in the flask,&quot; he told the Colorado Springs Gazette. &quot;I really didn&#8217;t know what to do.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Carmody has asked the Colorado Springs City Council for a variance, allowing him to legally say Mass outdoors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&quot;I do not want to break the law. I&#8217;m simply asking for a variance,&quot; Carmody told the City Council on Tuesday. &quot;This is a religious ceremony.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">According to the Gazette, city ordinance 2.5.704 prohibits drinking in any street, alley, sidewalk, avenue, park &#8211; even public stairways. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/news\/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41634\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">While I have great sympathy for what this priest is doing I also don&#8217;t think that the celebration of Mass outside an abortion clinic is a decent place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/roman_curia\/congregations\/ccdds\/documents\/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html#_ftn207\">Redemptionis Sacramentum<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">1. The Place for the Celebration of Holy Mass<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">[108.] &#8220;The celebration of the Eucharist is to be carried out in a sacred place, unless in a particular case necessity requires otherwise. In this case the celebration must be in a decent place.&#8221; [197] The diocesan Bishop shall be the judge for his diocese concerning this necessity, on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Catholic priest has run afoul of the law in Colorado Springs, Colo., after being caught with an open container of sacramental wine while performing Mass outside an abortion clinic.&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-6364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364","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=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}