{"id":15709,"date":"2012-11-14T09:03:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=15709"},"modified":"2015-02-05T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T21:33:05","slug":"usccb-appoints-new-spokesman-for-meatless-fridays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/14\/usccb-appoints-new-spokesman-for-meatless-fridays\/","title":{"rendered":"USCCB appoints new spokesman for Meatless Fridays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Two days ago, Cardinal Dolan gave his <a href=\"http:\/\/whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/first-things-first-from-president-call.html\">presidential address<\/a> to the US Bishops. In his speech, he focused on the need for penance and suggested the possible reintroduction of the traditional Catholic practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">What an irony that despite the call of the Second Vatican Council for a renewal of the Sacrament of Penance, what we got instead was its near disappearance&#8230;.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">The work of our Conference during the coming year <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">includes reflections on re-embracing Friday as a particular day of penance<\/span>, including the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">possible re-institution of abstinence on all Fridays<\/span> of the year, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">not just during Lent<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It appears that Cardinal Dolan is moving forward with this initiative, since we have just heard on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brandon.w.vogt\">Facebook<\/a> that the bishops have appointed a new advocacy spokesman,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fYiCPmwOV4A#t=35s\">Gollum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Meme1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15710\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Meme1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Meme1.png 623w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Meme1-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/meme3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15713\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/meme3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Meme2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15712\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Meme2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/memr4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15715\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/memr4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/brandonvogt.com\">Brandon Vogt<\/a> for the inspiration here)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago, Cardinal Dolan gave his presidential address to the US Bishops. In his speech, he focused on the need for penance and suggested the possible reintroduction of the traditional Catholic practice of abstaining from meat on Fridays: What an irony that despite the call of the Second Vatican Council for a renewal of the Sacrament of Penance, what<\/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":[18],"tags":[1026,1123,2969,69,1800,1670,1242],"class_list":["post-15709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","tag-abstinence","tag-cardinal-dolan","tag-featured","tag-friday","tag-gollum","tag-meat","tag-meme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709","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=15709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55123,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709\/revisions\/55123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}