{"id":51032,"date":"2014-02-21T00:57:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T07:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=51032"},"modified":"2014-12-29T16:56:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T23:56:43","slug":"everything-thats-wrong-with-the-american-episcopacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/02\/everything-thats-wrong-with-the-american-episcopacy.html","title":{"rendered":"Everything That’s Wrong with the American Episcopacy…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

summed up in a single headline:<\/p>\n

A Church So Poor It Has to Close Schools, Yet So Rich It Can Build a Palace<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The amazingly out-of-touch folly of American bishops is incredible to behold sometimes.\u00a0 No wonder people respond so strongly to the Real Deal when they see it in Francis.\u00a0 The sheer relief of meeting a shepherd who thinks and acts like a shepherd and not like a bureaucrat with a taste for brandy is volcanic.<\/p>\n

Memo to Bp Myers: the phrase was \u201ca Church that is poor and for the poor<\/a>\u201d not \u201ca Church that is impoverished by the pampered and incompetent\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sheesh.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

summed up in a single headline: A Church So Poor It Has to Close Schools, Yet So Rich It Can Build a Palace The amazingly out-of-touch folly of American bishops is incredible to behold sometimes.\u00a0 No wonder people respond so strongly to the Real Deal when they see it in Francis.\u00a0 The sheer relief of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[543],"class_list":["post-51032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-argh"],"yoast_head":"\nEverything That's Wrong with the American Episcopacy...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"summed up in a single headline: A Church So Poor It Has to Close Schools, Yet So Rich It Can Build a Palace The amazingly out-of-touch folly of American\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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