{"id":2691,"date":"2018-12-16T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T00:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2018-12-16T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T00:20:16","slug":"why-wont-catholics-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=2691","title":{"rendered":"Why Won&#8217;t Catholics Leave?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor Maas at Hillsdale College offers a carefully reasoned analysis and concludes that the Roman Catholic doctrine that insists on the authority of the papacy is why Romans Catholic laity will not depart despite a series of unseemly scandals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/11\/19\/church-abuse-far-catholic-faithful\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Is There Any Church Abuse Too Far For The Catholic Faithful?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The editors at <em>The Federalist<\/em> also offer a thoughtful Roman Catholic response to Professor Maas, one that would seem to miss the point of Mass&#8217;s article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/11\/27\/stop-weaponizing-priest-abuse-crisis-catholic-theology\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stop Weaponizing The Priest Abuse Crisis Against Catholic Theology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Maas at Hillsdale College offers a carefully reasoned analysis and concludes that the Roman Catholic doctrine that insists on the authority of the papacy is why Romans Catholic laity will not depart despite a series of unseemly scandals. Is There Any Church Abuse Too Far For The Catholic Faithful? The editors at The Federalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecumenism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2694,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}