{"id":86,"date":"2010-04-22T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/washington-dc-events-rescind-invites-to-catholic-cardinal-evangelical-leader.html"},"modified":"2010-04-22T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:50:00","slug":"washington-dc-events-rescind-invites-to-catholic-cardinal-evangelical-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/washington-dc-events-rescind-invites-to-catholic-cardinal-evangelical-leader.html","title":{"rendered":"Washington D.C. Events Rescind Invites to Catholic Cardinal, Franklin Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coincidentally, two&nbsp;separate Washington D.C. events&nbsp;have just rescinded invitations&nbsp;to conservative Christian clergy, in response to public outcry over each&nbsp;man&#8217;s previous statements. In brief:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Cardinal Dar\u00edo Castrill\u00f3n Hoyos,&nbsp;who formerly headed the Vatican&#8217;s Congregation for the Clergy, will no longer be leading a Latin Mass this Saturday, in Pope Benedict&#8217;s honor,&nbsp;at the Basilica in Washington. He&nbsp;has been disinvited because of fresh controversy over his role in the sexual abuse scandal: a 2001 letter in which he praised&nbsp;a French bishop for refusing to report a priest who had raped children. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/22\/us\/22priest.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">The New York Times <\/a>has more on this story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Evangelical leader Frankllin Graham will no longer be speaking at the Pentagon at a May 6 National Day of Prayer event. The invitation was rescinded in response to objections by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, which cited Graham&#8217;s past remarks about Islam as an evil religion. <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/undergod\/2010\/04\/cnn_army_rescinds_franklin_grahams_invitation_to_speak_at_prayer_event_at_pentagaon.html\">On Faith <\/a>has more on this story.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coincidentally, two&nbsp;separate Washington D.C. events&nbsp;have just rescinded invitations&nbsp;to conservative Christian clergy, in response to public outcry over each&nbsp;man&#8217;s previous statements. In brief: &#8211;Cardinal Dar\u00edo Castrill\u00f3n Hoyos,&nbsp;who formerly headed the Vatican&#8217;s Congregation for the Clergy, will no longer be leading a Latin Mass this Saturday, in Pope Benedict&#8217;s honor,&nbsp;at the Basilica in Washington. He&nbsp;has been disinvited&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Washington D.C. 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