{"id":80250,"date":"2021-02-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=80250"},"modified":"2021-02-24T08:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T15:40:05","slug":"the-church-is-a-whore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/24\/the-church-is-a-whore\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: The Church is a whore?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Augustine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Augustine.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Augustine.jpg 860w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Augustine-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/St.-Augustine-768x565.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s &#8220;Wise Words on Wednesday&#8221; is a correction of a quotation I&#8217;ll periodically see people quote on the Internet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Church is a whore, but she&#8217;s also my mother<\/p><cite>St. Augustine?<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a poor paraphrase of something which St. Augustine wrote in Sermon 213:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Let us honor the Catholic Church, our true Mother, the true Bride of her Husband, because she is the wife of so great a Lord. And what shall I say? How great is that Husband and of singular rank, that he discovered a prostitute and made her a virgin. Because she should not deny that she was a prostitute, lest she forget the mercy of her liberator. How can it be said that she was not a prostitute when she fornicated with demons and idols?&#8221;<\/p><cite>Sermon 213 on the Creed<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ordering is really important here. The Bride of Christ was once unfaithful, but she was liberated by Him &#8211; the emphasis is on Christ&#8217;s ability to heal, save, and sanctify the lost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s &#8220;Wise Words on Wednesday&#8221; is a correction of a quotation I&#8217;ll periodically see people quote on the Internet: The Church is a whore, but she&#8217;s also my mother St. Augustine? This is a poor paraphrase of something which St. Augustine wrote in Sermon 213: &#8220;Let us honor the Catholic Church, our true Mother, the true Bride of her Husband,<\/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":[17,423],"tags":[143,3020],"class_list":["post-80250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-quote","tag-st-augustine","tag-the-church"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80250","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=80250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80286,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80250\/revisions\/80286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}