{"id":7452,"date":"2016-10-21T10:13:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7452"},"modified":"2016-10-21T10:13:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:13:56","slug":"the-future-of-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/the-future-of-catholicism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"8232\"<\/a>By putting compassion ahead of doctrinal enforcement, Pope Francis I promises nothing less than a wholesale transformation of the Roman Catholic Church. But, for all of the hope and excitement that he has inspired, is this anything more than just a passing phase? (Francis, after all, will be 80 years old in December. He also has just one functioning lung and is three years into a papacy that he himself has said will probably last no longer than five.) In this month\u2019s edition of \u201cUp Next,\u201d<\/a> host Marty Lasden examines Francis\u2019s likely legacy, and what that legacy portends for the church as a whole, with Thomas J. Reese, a Jesuit priest who also happens to be one of this country\u2019s most respected church journalists. In fact, back in 2014 President Obama appointed him to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan policy group for which he now serves as its chair. However, for all of the accolades that Reese has received over the years, his career has not been without controversy. And in 2005 one major controversy came to a head when the Vatican\u2019s head enforcer\u2014a cardinal named Joseph Ratzinger who later became Pope Benedict XVI\u2014forced Reese to resign as the editor-in-chief of a Jesuit magazine called \u201cAmerica\u201d for publishing too many articles that dared to question church policy. \u201cIn my soul,\u201d says Reese, \u201cI didn\u2019t think there was a conflict [between being a good journalist and being an obedient priest]. \u201cBut other people thought there was a conflict. And that\u2019s why I got fired.\u201d Of course, all of that happened well before Francis came along.<\/p>\n

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By putting compassion ahead of doctrinal enforcement, Pope Francis I promises nothing less than a wholesale transformation of the Roman Catholic Church. But, for all of the hope and excitement that he has inspired, is this anything more than just a passing phase? (Francis, after all, will be 80 years old in December. He also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}