{"id":8809,"date":"2002-10-28T17:41:24","date_gmt":"2002-10-28T22:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/28\/wellfounded-hope\/"},"modified":"2002-10-28T17:41:24","modified_gmt":"2002-10-28T22:41:24","slug":"wellfounded-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/wellfounded-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellfounded hope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FONT color=#3333ff>Domestic partners Michael<br \/>\nMeehan and Thomas Dysarz worried over how the Roman Catholic church would<br \/>\nreceive their quadruplets, given the doctrine that homosexual acts are sinful<br \/>\nand surrogate motherhood is prohibited.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>But yesterday, the Rev. Paul Prabell blessed the men as<br \/>\nhe would any other parents and baptized their 3-month-old quadruplets at<br \/>\nLexington&#8217;s Cathedral of Christ the King.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;This is what Christ would do,&#8221; said Meehan, the<br \/>\nquadruplets&#8217; biological father, after the ceremony. &#8220;He blessed people who were<br \/>\ncast out of the church. (The babies) are God&#8217;s children. That&#8217;s how the church<br \/>\nshould view it.&#8221;<\/font> [<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/mld\/heraldleader\/4379749.htm\">Full<br \/>\nstory<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Can. 868 \ufffd1 For an infant to be baptized lawfully it is<br \/>\nrequired:<\/p>\n<p>1\ufffd that the parents, or at least one of them, or the person who lawfully<br \/>\nholds their place, give their consent;<\/p>\n<p>2\ufffd that there be a wellfounded hope that the child will be brought up in the<br \/>\ncatholic religion. If such hope is truly lacking, the baptism is, in accordance<br \/>\nwith the provisions of particular law, to be deferred and the parents advised of<br \/>\nthe reason for this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FONT color=#3333ff>Domestic partners Michael Meehan and Thomas Dysarz worried over how the Roman Catholic church would receive their quadruplets, given the doctrine that homosexual acts are sinful and surrogate motherhood&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809","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=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}