{"id":10900,"date":"2012-10-23T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=10900"},"modified":"2016-05-17T17:03:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T00:03:41","slug":"catholic-news-you-never-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/catholic-news-you-never-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic News You Never Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started reading\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rediscovering-Catholicism-Journeying-Toward-Spiritual\/dp\/1929266081\">&#8220;Rediscovering Catholicism&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamiccatholic.com\/\">Matthew Kelly<\/a>\u00a0and I wanted to share a one quotations from the opening pages:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;Every single day the Catholic Church<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> feeds<\/span>,<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> houses<\/span>, and<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> clothes<\/span> more people, takes care of more<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> sick<\/span>\u00a0people,<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> visits<\/span> more prisoners, and<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> educates<\/span> more people than<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> any other institution on the face of\u00a0the earth<\/span> could ever hope to&#8230; <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Catholic education system<\/span> alone saves American taxpayers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">eighteen billion dollars a year<\/span>&#8230; <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>This year, catholic charities will provide <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2.2 million free meals to the hungry and the needy of\u00a0Chicago<\/span>. We don\u2019t ask them if they are Catholic \u2013 we just ask them if they are hungry&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; Matthew Kelly, Rediscovering Catholicism<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When there is a scandal in the Catholic Church it is blasted from every media outlet so that the whole world gets to hear about it. Yet how is it that the continued good works of the Church so often go unreported?<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Catholic-Charities.jpg\" alt=\"Catholic Charities\" width=\"330\" height=\"228\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aside from the fact that it&#8217;s not as sensational, it&#8217;s\u00a0not news! This is the same service which the Church has offered the world\u00a0every day for two thousand years.\u00a0It ceased being <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">news<\/span> a long time ago&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started reading\u00a0&#8220;Rediscovering Catholicism&#8221; by Matthew Kelly\u00a0and I wanted to share a one quotations from the opening pages: &#8220;Every single day the Catholic Church feeds, houses, and clothes more people, takes care of more sick\u00a0people, visits more prisoners, and educates more people than any other institution on the face of\u00a0the earth could ever hope to&#8230; The Catholic education system alone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[349,2969,1021,1020,778,745,1022],"class_list":["post-10900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-charity","tag-featured","tag-homeless","tag-matthew-kelly","tag-media","tag-poor","tag-reporting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10900"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61456,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions\/61456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}