{"id":9258,"date":"2008-11-14T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T21:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9258"},"modified":"2008-11-14T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T21:49:01","slug":"my-former-little-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9258","title":{"rendered":"MY (FORMER) LITTLE TOWN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up Catholic just outside of Greenville, SC.  A few years ago my old parish, Prince of Peace Catholic Church, took a hard right turn and became one of the first churches in the country to try to turn the clock back to pre-Vatican II.  Now, its sister parish a couple miles away has gone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/?p=13837\">one step further<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him \u201cconstitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cOur nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president,\u201d Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am so glad I am a lapsed Catholic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up Catholic just outside of Greenville, SC. A few years ago my old parish, Prince of Peace Catholic Church, took a hard right turn and became one of the first churches in the country to try to turn the clock back to pre-Vatican II. Now, its sister parish a couple miles away has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9259,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9258\/revisions\/9259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}