{"id":11683,"date":"2017-11-14T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=11683"},"modified":"2017-11-14T17:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T17:01:28","slug":"u-s-bishops-choose-conservative-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/u-s-bishops-choose-conservative-head\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Bishops Choose Conservative Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>From the Wall Street Journal:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/BN-WC987_3ijgT_OR_20171114112456.jpg?width=860&amp;height=577\" alt=\"Members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops during a session at the USCCB's annual fall meeting in Baltimore on Monday.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>BALTIMORE\u2014The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops chose a conservative archbishop\u00a0for\u00a0a key post Tuesday, signaling resistance to Pope Francis\u2019s vision for the church among\u00a0the\u00a0Catholic\u00a0hierarchy\u00a0in the U.S.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Archbishop Joseph Naumann, of Kansas City,\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/pro-life-vote-viewed-as-gauge-of-u-s-bishops-support-for-pope-1510408801\">was elected chairman<\/a>of the committee on Pro-Life Activities. In a vote of 96 to 82, he defeated Cardinal Blase Cupich, of Chicago, who is seen as a liberal in the church and a close ally of the pope.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>The vote breaks a longstanding tradition of the position being held by a cardinal\u2014an unusual lapse of deference in a highly rank-conscious body\u2014and suggests\u00a0that Catholic leaders in the U.S. remain largely resistant to the changes Pope Francis is trying to bring to the church.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em> <strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-catholic-leaders-signal-resistance-to-popes-agenda-1510677737\">For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/04\/tropical-rains-possible-tornadoes-threaten-half-us.html?intcmp=hpbt1\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em> <strong>[Return to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\">www.spiritdaily.com]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Michael%20H.%20Brown\/Documents\/My%20Webs\/indexhold.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/angellily.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>Pray always for purity and love<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">+++<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"church\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1510678888\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"U.S. Bishops Choose Conservative Head\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Wall Street Journal: BALTIMORE\u2014The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops chose a conservative archbishop\u00a0for\u00a0a key post Tuesday, signaling resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1332],"class_list":{"0":"post-11683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-church","7":"tag-u-s-bishops","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}