{"id":20340,"date":"2015-10-07T09:57:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=20340"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:57:16","slug":"liberal-lobbyists-remember-leo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2015\/10\/liberal-lobbyists-remember-leo.html","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Lobbyists? Remember Leo"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_20341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20341\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/149\/2015\/10\/Leo.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20341\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/149\/2015\/10\/Leo.jpg\" alt=\"No Lobbyists for Leo\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No Lobbyists for Leo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>My latest blog post for National Catholic Register is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/longenecker\/to-liberals-we-will-not-be-lobbied\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What progressives can\u2019t seem to get into their head is that the Catholic Church is not simply another political agency like the United Nations, the European Union or some Congress or Parliament. The Pope, Bishops and priests of the Catholic Church are not for sale. The doctrines and dogmas, of the Catholic Church are not changed because they cannot be changed. The devotions and disciplines of the church (which can be changed) are not altered by public polls, petitions, pressure from the press, well funded lobbying groups, slick PR firms or social media campaigns.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/blog\/longenecker\/to-liberals-we-will-not-be-lobbied\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a> to read the post.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest blog post for National Catholic Register is here What progressives can\u2019t seem to get into their head is that the Catholic Church is not simply another political agency like the United Nations, the European Union or some Congress or Parliament. 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