{"id":7633,"date":"2004-03-25T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/comments_closed_9.html"},"modified":"2004-03-25T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T19:56:07","slug":"comments_closed_9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/comments_closed_9.html","title":{"rendered":"Comments Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Closed until Saturday morning, I think. We&#8217;ll abstain from comments on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>So DON&#8217;T write to me asking why you&#8217;ve been banned. There&#8217;s a trick where I can ban everyone. Which is the only way to close all comments easily. <\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean I won&#8217;t blog. I have some things to say.<\/p>\n<p>Prime among them is the rather bizarre feeling floating around these comments boxes that somehow, a person who attends the dreaded Novus Ordo liturgy and actually prays and encounters the Lord during said liturgy&#8230;must be spiritually deficient.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very strange.<\/p>\n<p>And I still fail to see how anger and resentment during a liturgy has anything to do with meeting Christ during the liturgy. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has read this blog for more than a week knows that I am advocate of lay responsibility to call attention to abuses, etc.. but this implication that it is perfectly all right to fill one&#8217;s mind with judgment rather than the love of Christ during the liturgy is odd, to say the least. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closed until Saturday morning, I think. We&#8217;ll abstain from comments on Friday. So DON&#8217;T write to me asking why you&#8217;ve been banned. There&#8217;s a trick where I can ban everyone. Which is the only way to close all comments easily. But that doesn&#8217;t mean I won&#8217;t blog. I have some things to say. Prime among&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Comments Closed - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/comments_closed_9.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Comments Closed - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Closed until Saturday morning, I think. 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