{"id":783,"date":"2008-09-07T22:08:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T22:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics.html"},"modified":"2008-09-07T22:08:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T22:08:41","slug":"its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics.html","title":{"rendered":"It’s about Catholics acting like Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rocco gives us the link to Bishop Morlino of Madison’s homily this morning – not the homily he planned – but one he ended up delivering in response to Pelosi and Biden.<\/a>
\nHere’s the link to the mp3 – past it in your media player. <\/a>
\nI’m fascinated by the setting-aside-the-prepared-text aspect of it all.
\nHere’s the American Papist’s account of Biden’s words on MTP this morning. <\/a>
\nHis taking-off point is that the two are about his age, and were probably taught the same lessons he were – and they’re not what they’re saying now.
\n(And to cut to the chase, Morlino blames bishops, priests and theologians for the situation)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rocco gives us the link to Bishop Morlino of Madison’s homily this morning – not the homily he planned – but one he ended up delivering in response to Pelosi and Biden. Here’s the link to the mp3 – past it in your media player. I’m fascinated by the setting-aside-the-prepared-text aspect of it all. Here’s…<\/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-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nIt's about Catholics acting like Catholics - 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\/2008\/09\/its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It's about Catholics acting like Catholics - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rocco gives us the link to Bishop Morlino of Madison’s homily this morning – not the homily he planned – but one he ended up delivering in response to Pelosi and Biden. Here’s the link to the mp3 – past it in your media player. I’m fascinated by the setting-aside-the-prepared-text aspect of it all. Here’s…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-09-07T22:08:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"awelborn\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"It's about Catholics acting like Catholics - Via Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"It's about Catholics acting like Catholics - Via Media","og_description":"Rocco gives us the link to Bishop Morlino of Madison’s homily this morning – not the homily he planned – but one he ended up delivering in response to Pelosi and Biden. Here’s the link to the mp3 – past it in your media player. I’m fascinated by the setting-aside-the-prepared-text aspect of it all. Here’s…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics.html","og_site_name":"Via Media","article_published_time":"2008-09-07T22:08:41+00:00","author":"awelborn","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics.html","name":"It's about Catholics acting like Catholics - Via Media","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website"},"datePublished":"2008-09-07T22:08:41+00:00","dateModified":"2008-09-07T22:08:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/09\/its-about-catholics-acting-like-catholics.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"It’s about Catholics acting like Catholics"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/","name":"Via Media","description":"Amy Welborn","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/aea2dcda1635c9c2d6030d9c7595725a","name":"awelborn","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/9f2\/9f2100183464289fedc5b8a621c15110x96.jpg","caption":"awelborn"},"description":"Amy Welborn was born in 1960, the only child of a now-retired professor of political science, a teacher-librarian-artist mother,deceased since 2001, was a teacher, librarian and artist. The Catholicism comes from her side. Amy grew up in a number of places - Indiana - Washington, DC - Lubbock Texas - Arlington, Virginia - DeKalb, Illinois - Lawrence, Kansas - and Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family settled in 1973. She attended Knoxville Catholic High School, then the University of Tennessee where she majored in history. She received an MA in Church History from Vanderbilt University, where she wrote a thesis on the changing role of women in 19th century American Protestantism, and the ways Scripture was used to justify those changes. She worked as as a teacher in Catholic high schools and a Parish Director of Religious Education and started writing for the diocesan press - the Florida Catholic - in 1988. Amy has written columns for Our Sunday Visitor and Catholic News Service at times over the past twenty years. Her articles have been published in venues ranging from Our Sunday Visitor to the New York Times to Commonweal. She has written 17 books. 18, if you included the as yet tragically unpublished novel. Amy has five children, ranging in age from 26 to 4 and was married to Michael Dubruiel, who died unexpectedly in February 2009. She lives in Birmingham, Alabama.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/author\/awelborn"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}