Vatican: Pope Presses U.S. Bishops on Message on Sex<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPope Benedict XVI urged bishops to beef up their teaching about the evils of premarital sex and cohabitation, and denouncing what he called the \u201cpowerful\u201d gay marriage lobby in America.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Y'know, if it were just a message of teaching, that would be one thing. Engaging with people like Christ did would be helpful. Making it an Us vs. Them creates more conflict than it resolves. And advocating and campaigning for laws that force social compliance to said teaching … is something else altogether. #ddtb Embedded … Continue reading “Pope Presses U.S. Bishops to be Less Popular”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,718],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-27024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marriage-equality","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27460,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/19\/listening-to-the-bishops-is-mandatory-except-when-its-optional.html","url_meta":{"origin":27024,"position":0},"title":"Listening to the Bishops is Mandatory … except when it's Optional","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Apr-12 2:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"GOP Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan made a big deal about how his Catholic faith and moral sense of something-or-another informed the budget he proposed, so that's how you knew it was a good thing. 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