{"id":8014,"date":"2003-07-21T13:23:31","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T18:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/07\/21\/a-church-where-god-was-not-invited\/"},"modified":"2003-07-21T13:23:31","modified_gmt":"2003-07-21T18:23:31","slug":"a-church-where-god-was-not-invited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/07\/a-church-where-god-was-not-invited\/","title":{"rendered":"A church where God was not invited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">A priest has been accused of blasphemy for allowing a fashion show featuring scantily clad models to take place in his church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Clothes created by Polish designer Arkadius Weremczuk were modelled at the Holy Mary of Lourdes Church in Jette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">They included see-through blouses with embroidered crucifixes and small tops featuring portraits of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Priest Marc Scheerens said he was challenging the last taboo of nudity in church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Het Nieuwsblad reports an organisation called Belgium and Christianity has accused the 54-year-old of blasphemy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels said he wants to watch a film of the invitation-only event before deciding whether to take action. He said: &#8220;A priest is free to do in his church what he likes but we can punish him afterwards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Mr Scheerens is reported as saying: &#8220;A church is not the house of God. A church is the house of everyone, fashion designers included.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;And God couldn&#8217;t have been shocked by it, since he was not invited. All guests knew exactly what they could expect. There was no churchgoer present who could take offence.&#8221;<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_507667.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A priest has been accused of blasphemy for allowing a fashion show featuring scantily clad models to take place in his church. Clothes created by Polish designer Arkadius Weremczuk were&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-8014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014","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=8014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}