{"id":92799,"date":"2016-05-31T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T15:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp\/?p=92799"},"modified":"2016-05-31T21:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T01:21:04","slug":"fans-of-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/2016\/05\/fans-of-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans of Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_92800\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/everbodyfrancisd.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92800\" class=\"wp-image-92800 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/everbodyfrancisd.png\" alt=\"everbodyfrancisd\" width=\"320\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/everbodyfrancisd.png 320w, https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/everbodyfrancisd-150x115.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/everbodyfrancisd-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Call Me Jorge blog<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"first\"><strong>COOL\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/callmejorgebergoglio.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/everbody-loves-francis.html\">celebrities love Francis<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>But then, in general, the more a person rejects Catholic faith and morals, the more he\u00a0<em>loves\u00a0<\/em>Francis. Celebrities and politicians literally drool over Francis the Fake because they crave the approval of the Catholic Church, which they secretly know is the most powerful institution on earth, without paying any of the costs, even the cost of\u00a0<em>believing in it.\u00a0<\/em>Fortunately for them, Francis doesn&#8217;t require that.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t that tell you something?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fathercekada.com\/2016\/05\/28\/hey-trads-take-this-pop-pope-quiz\/\">quick quiz<\/a> to test your logic on all this.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212; Comments &#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>George Pal writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">How short are the odds, that before the year is up, a search for &#8220;Francis the Talking Mule&#8221; will make reference to Pope Francis before referencing the seven-movie series starring Donald O\u2019Connor?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Do lay Catholics need permission to utilize the &#8216;ad hoc rescue&#8217; formulation when defending the faith, i.e., the &#8216;no true Catholic&#8217; shtick? The nuns used it on me to good effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Francis would not have passed 7th-grade catechism classes 50 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COOL\u00a0celebrities love Francis! But then, in general, the more a person rejects Catholic faith and morals, the more he\u00a0loves\u00a0Francis. Celebrities and politicians literally drool over Francis the Fake because they crave the approval of the Catholic Church, which they secretly know is the most powerful institution on earth, without paying any of the costs, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92799"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92809,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92799\/revisions\/92809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkinghousewife.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}