{"id":6525,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-churchs-logic\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:24","slug":"the-churchs-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-churchs-logic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church&#8217;s Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 17, 2002<\/p>\n<p>To the Editor:<\/p>\n<p>Re: &#8220;Aide Defends Egan&#8217;s Action in Priest Case&#8221; (news article, May 15):<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t there something tragically illogical about the church hierarchy&#8217;s having been so cavalier about protecting children from abuse while at the same time being so adamant and outspoken about protecting the fetus?<\/p>\n<p>LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN<\/p>\n<p>New York, May 16, 2002<\/p>\n<p>The writer is a women&#8217;s rights activist and a founding editor of Ms. mMagazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 17, 2002 To the Editor: Re: &#8220;Aide Defends Egan&#8217;s Action in Priest Case&#8221; (news article, May 15): Isn&#8217;t there something tragically illogical about the church hierarchy&#8217;s having been so cavalier about protecting children from abuse while at the same time being so adamant and outspoken about protecting the fetus? LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN New York, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[450,67,523,387],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}