{"id":7286,"date":"2004-04-18T14:34:35","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T19:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/04\/18\/if-it-prays-in-peoria\/"},"modified":"2004-04-18T14:34:35","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T19:34:35","slug":"if-it-prays-in-peoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/04\/if-it-prays-in-peoria\/","title":{"rendered":"If it prays in Peoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">PEORIA &#8211; Possibly as many as 1,000 Catholic men will make a stand for their faith by walking and then kneeling on May 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Responding to a sermon by Bishop Daniel Jenky in August 2003 at an Erin Feis Mass that urged Catholics to defend their faith against cultural attacks, members of a men&#8217;s group that regularly meets at St. Mark&#8217;s Catholic Church in Peoria have organized the &#8220;Call to Catholic Men of Faith&#8221; event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;What got me most was the bishop said, &#8216;What is it going to take to get you to stand up for what you believe?&#8217; &#8221; in the face of jokes and disparaging comments about the Catholic faith, said Tim Drew, one of the organizers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;It was a real call; it was a real challenge to the faithful to no longer just sit back and sheepishly take assaults,&#8221; he said.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjstar.com\/news\/local\/b2oe46l0040.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEORIA &#8211; Possibly as many as 1,000 Catholic men will make a stand for their faith by walking and then kneeling on May 1. Responding to a sermon by Bishop&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286","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=7286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}