{"id":4107,"date":"2012-10-15T22:25:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T03:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2017-12-08T23:32:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T04:32:14","slug":"townsend-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=4107","title":{"rendered":"Townsend Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4108\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4108\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4108\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kkennedytownsend.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kkennedytownsend.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kkennedytownsend-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the daughter of the late Sen. Robert Kennedy speaks at Syracuse University&#8217;s inaugural Joseph and Amelia Borgognoni Lecture in Catholic Theology and Religion in Society. She discussed the slow rate of change coming to the Catholic Church. She also advocated that it&#8217;s wrong to legislate something that you can&#8217;t get people to do morally. She also warned against the dangers of self-righteousness (in the Church).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Townsend, who wrote <em>Failing America&#8217;s Faithful: How Today&#8217;s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way,\u00a0<\/em>discussed the slow rate of change coming to the Catholic Church. She also warned against the dangers of self-righteousness (in the Church).<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;It&#8217;s\u00a0wrong to legislate something that you can&#8217;t get people to do morally,&#8221; she said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsend, who wrote Failing America&#8217;s Faithful: How Today&#8217;s Churches are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way,\u00a0discussed the slow rate of change coming to the Catholic Church. She also warned against the dangers of self-righteousness (in the Church). &#8220;It&#8217;s\u00a0wrong to legislate something that you can&#8217;t get people to do morally,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84],"tags":[1786,2392,2391,58,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23868,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/23868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}