{"id":1372,"date":"2005-10-10T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2005-10-10T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/ah-the-brits.html"},"modified":"2005-10-10T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T08:58:07","slug":"ah-the-brits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/ah-the-brits.html","title":{"rendered":"Ah, the Brits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you frequent Catholic blogs, you might remember, all of a week or so ago, a story about the Catholic bishops in the UK issuing a doc about Scripture which, according to the news accounts was some radical departure because it warned Catholics not to be literalists in their reading of Scripture. I never blogged the story because I wanted to read the document myself, but never had time. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyakin.org\/2005\/10\/times_religion_.html#more\">Jimmy Akin has, and Jimmy Akin clarifies. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you frequent Catholic blogs, you might remember, all of a week or so ago, a story about the Catholic bishops in the UK issuing a doc about Scripture which, according to the news accounts was some radical departure because it warned Catholics not to be literalists in their reading of Scripture. 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