{"id":26740,"date":"2011-11-14T15:52:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T19:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/usccb-religious-liberty-commit\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T16:42:09","slug":"usccb-religious-liberty-commit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/usccb-religious-liberty-commit\/","title":{"rendered":"USCCB Religious Liberty committee and consultants finalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USCCB Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty headed up by Bishop William Edward Lori\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1104470.htm\">announces<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>the bishops and consultants:<\/p>\n<p>Ten bishops and\u00a010 consultants were named to the committee in early November.<\/p>\n<p>New members are\u00a0Bishop John O. Barres of Allentown, Pa.; Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of\u00a0Philadelphia; Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas; Archbishop Wilton\u00a0D. Gregory of Atlanta; Archbishop John C. Nienstedt of St. Paul and<br \/>\nMinneapolis; Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix; Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of\u00a0Springfield, Ill.; Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi of Mobile, Ala.; Archbishop J.\u00a0Peter Sartain of Seattle; and Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of\u00a0Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Consultants include Carl Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of\u00a0Columbus; attorneys Kevin Baine, Philip Lacovara and L. Martin Nussbaum; Father\u00a0Raymond J. de Souza, a columnist and priest of the Archdiocese of Kingston, Ontario;<br \/>\nRichard Garnett, associate dean and professor of law and political science at\u00a0the University of Notre Dame; John Garvey, president of The Catholic University\u00a0of America; Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law School professor; Judge Michael<br \/>\nMcConnell, Stanford University Law School professor; and Mary Ellen Russell,\u00a0executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Lori said we need to have &#8220;a new appreciation for religious liberty and a renewed determination to defend it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As mere commentary, the lay members of this committee are impressive.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USCCB Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty headed up by Bishop William Edward Lori\u00a0announces\u00a0the bishops and consultants: Ten bishops and\u00a010 consultants were named to the committee in early November. New members are\u00a0Bishop John O. Barres of Allentown, Pa.; Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of\u00a0Philadelphia; Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas; Archbishop Wilton\u00a0D. Gregory of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/11\/usccb-religious-liberty-commit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USCCB Religious Liberty committee and consultants finalized<\/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":[62],"tags":[1769,2574,2367],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26740"}],"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=26740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28985,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26740\/revisions\/28985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}