{"id":24780,"date":"2009-07-03T20:29:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T00:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/former-papal-theologian-consid\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T00:29:23","slug":"former-papal-theologian-consid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/former-papal-theologian-consid\/","title":{"rendered":"Former papal theologian considers Obama&#8217;s optimism possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Swiss theologian of the papal household under Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Georges Cottier, OP, thinks it&#8217;s possible to accept some of Obama&#8217;s approach to matters like abortion, etc. as a temporary measure because he perceives Obama as realistic. John Allen <a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/blogs\/ncr-today\/former-papal-theologian-praises-obamas-realism-even-abortion\">writes about the cardinal&#8217;s remarks<\/a>. I think the cardinal&#8217;s approach is too optimistic and weak in some areas. What do you think of Cottier&#8217;s and Allen&#8217;s analysis? Is Cottier realistic or naive?<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Read Sandro Magister&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it\/articolo\/1339189?eng=y\">insightful analysis<\/a> of the Cardinal&#8217;s comments.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Swiss theologian of the papal household under Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Georges Cottier, OP, thinks it&#8217;s possible to accept some of Obama&#8217;s approach to matters like abortion, etc. as a temporary measure because he perceives Obama as realistic. John Allen writes about the cardinal&#8217;s remarks. I think the cardinal&#8217;s approach is too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/07\/former-papal-theologian-consid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former papal theologian considers Obama&#8217;s optimism possible<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39],"tags":[2141,2142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}