{"id":4335,"date":"2006-10-23T09:34:11","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T14:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/10\/23\/fear-of-the-irs\/"},"modified":"2006-10-23T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T14:34:11","slug":"fear-of-the-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/10\/fear-of-the-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of the IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">The Church is making a fool of herself because of certain Church officials who are behaving like scared children who think that the police are coming to their house to take them away forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">That&#8217;s what happens when priests think that the Church is &#8220;in danger of losing her tax exempt status&#8221; for speaking up about the elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">We don&#8217;t want to address controversial issues, and as a cover for our cowardice, we blame the tax guy. Never mind that the law allows us to speak up, or that no Church has ever lost its tax-exempt status for telling its people that they have to elect candidates who will protect life (which, after all, is the very purpose of government and public service!)<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">This confusion is the result of many years of paying more attention to building projects than building justice. As the Lord said, the very stones will cry out<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Obviously Fr. Frank Pavone is <a href=\"http:\/\/priestsforlife.org\/blog\/?p=46\">more than a little annoyed<\/a> by the timidity of some who seem to have a higher developed fear of the IRS compared to a fear of the Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church is making a fool of herself because of certain Church officials who are behaving like scared children who think that the police are coming to their house to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}