{"id":91642,"date":"2015-03-11T00:53:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T07:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=91642"},"modified":"2015-03-01T23:58:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T06:58:31","slug":"catholics-in-spaaaaaaace-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/03\/catholics-in-spaaaaaaace-open-thread.html","title":{"rendered":"Catholics in SPAAAAAAACE Open Thread"},"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>A reader asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">Mark, supposing the Vatican has plans to colonize Alpha Centauri\u2014which it most assuredly does\u2014what all would need to go into the mission prep? How would the relationship between the Pope and bishops be handled in the absence of FTL communications?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">I\u2019m looking for an approach informed by canon law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">Of course, I totally know the answer to this. \u00a0Like, <em>totally<\/em>. \u00a0But since it\u2019s so super-easy and my knowledge of canon law is so sophisticated, I\u2019ve decided not to answer it and instead leave it for you, my readers, to discuss and answer. Knock yourselves out.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader asks: Mark, supposing the Vatican has plans to colonize Alpha Centauri\u2014which it most assuredly does\u2014what all would need to go into the mission prep? How would the relationship between the Pope and bishops be handled in the absence of FTL communications? I\u2019m looking for an approach informed by canon law. 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