{"id":25786,"date":"2010-08-31T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T20:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/britains-bishops-have-no-taste\/"},"modified":"2010-08-31T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T20:37:21","slug":"britains-bishops-have-no-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/britains-bishops-have-no-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Bishops have no taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Papal%20staging%20at%20Cotton%20Park.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Papal staging at Cotton Park.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/Papal staging at Cotton Park-thumb-400x273-7147.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"273\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>The UK Bishops&#8217; Conference will be providing the Holy Father &#8211;and the Church universal&#8211; this sanctuary for the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Rite of Beatification for Cardinal Newman. The the only possible thing to say is: OMG!!!! What rubbish.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If this is in fact what Britain&#8217;s Bishops are approving for the papal ceremonies it is, in my mind, a complete disregard (a slap in the face) for the liturgical leadership of Pope Benedict and the renewal he&#8217;s asked for in recent years. Why spend so much money, time and energy on such stuff.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Architecture is only one piece of the liturgical ac of prayer &#8230; I pray the music, flowers, and ritual actions, vestments are not so churlish. Two things we can be certain of: the papal homily will be exceptional and the papal presence will be superior.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Bishops&#8217; Conference will be providing the Holy Father &#8211;and the Church universal&#8211; this sanctuary for the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Rite of Beatification for Cardinal Newman. The the only possible thing to say is: OMG!!!! What rubbish. If this is in fact what Britain&#8217;s Bishops are approving for the papal ceremonies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/britains-bishops-have-no-taste\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Britain&#8217;s Bishops have no taste<\/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":[18,17],"tags":[32085,1713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786"}],"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=25786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}