{"id":91588,"date":"2015-05-27T00:35:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T07:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=91588"},"modified":"2015-05-07T11:34:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T18:34:16","slug":"becoming-a-better-confessor-using-the-virtues-and-vices-in-the-confessional-conference-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/05\/becoming-a-better-confessor-using-the-virtues-and-vices-in-the-confessional-conference-this-summer.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Becoming a Better Confessor: Using the Virtues and Vices in the Confessional&#8221; conference this summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Fr. Dominic Legge, OP writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m organizing a summer conference for priests on \u201cBecoming a Better Confessor: Using the Virtues and Vices in the Confessional\u201d through our faculty\u2019s Thomistic Institute here at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>We want to get the word out to priests, of course, but also to laity who might want to sponsor or otherwise encourage their priests to attend.<\/p>\n<p>We have a great cadre of presenters, and I think it will be a high quality event.<\/p>\n<p>The website for the conference is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomisticinstitute.org\/priest\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.thomisticinstitute.org\/priest\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check thou it out!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Dominic Legge, OP writes: I\u2019m organizing a summer conference for priests on \u201cBecoming a Better Confessor: Using the Virtues and Vices in the Confessional\u201d through our faculty\u2019s Thomistic Institute here at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. We want to get the word out to priests, of course, but also to laity [&hellip;]<\/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":[166,22],"class_list":["post-91588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dominican-stuff","tag-psa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Becoming a Better Confessor: Using the Virtues and Vices in the Confessional&quot; conference this summer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fr. 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