{"id":6676,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/only-catholics-make-it-in\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:34","slug":"only-catholics-make-it-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/only-catholics-make-it-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Catholics Make It In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Gibson in The New Yorker (September 15, 2003), discussing his then-upcoming film, \u201cThe Passion of the Christ\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no salvation for those outside the Church.  Put it this way.  My wife is a saint.  She&#8217;s a much better person than I am.  [But] she&#8217;s Episcopalian.  [S]he believes in God, she knows Jesus.  [A]nd it&#8217;s just not fair if she doesn&#8217;t make it [to heaven]; she&#8217;s better than I am.  But that is a pronouncement from the chair [that she will not be saved].  I go with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Gibson in The New Yorker (September 15, 2003), discussing his then-upcoming film, \u201cThe Passion of the Christ\u201d: \u201cThere is no salvation for those outside the Church. Put it this way. My wife is a saint. She&#8217;s a much better person than I am. [But] she&#8217;s Episcopalian. [S]he believes in God, she knows Jesus. [A]nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2219,1481,724,1587,387,2218],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676"}],"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=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}