{"id":1436,"date":"2017-07-17T13:14:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T17:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:14:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T17:14:25","slug":"pope-benedict-warns-church-is-in-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/2017\/07\/pope-benedict-warns-church-is-in-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict Warns Church is in Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>July 15, 2017 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Pope Benedict XVI sent a sobering message at the funeral of Cardinal Joachim Meisner today, saying he was moved at the\u00c2\u00a0<em>dubia<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0cardinal&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0ability to &#8220;live out of a deep conviction that the Lord does not abandon His Church, even when the boat has taken on so much water as to be on the verge of capsizing.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>The Church &#8220;stands in particularly pressing need of convincing shepherds who can resist the dictatorship of the spirit of the age and who live and think the faith with determination,&#8221; Pope Benedict said in a message read by Archbishop Georg G\u00c3\u00a4nswein, his personal secretary and head of the papal household. Because of this &#8220;pressing need,&#8221; Meisner &#8220;found it difficult to leave his post.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;What moved me all the more was that, in this last period of his life, he learned to let go and to live out of a deep conviction that the Lord does not abandon His Church, even when the boat has taken on so much water as to be on the verge of capsizing,&#8221; the pope emeritus concluded.<\/p>\n<p>AMDG<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"lws_0\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 15, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Pope Benedict XVI sent a sobering message at the funeral of Cardinal Joachim Meisner today, saying he was moved at the\u00c2\u00a0dubia\u00c2\u00a0cardinal&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0ability to &#8220;live out of a deep conviction that the Lord does not abandon His Church, even when the boat has taken on so much water as to be on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}