{"id":27311,"date":"2016-03-11T10:52:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=27311"},"modified":"2016-03-15T17:40:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:40:52","slug":"september-25-2015-pope-francis-family-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/03\/11\/september-25-2015-pope-francis-family-issues\/27311\/","title":{"rendered":" Pope Francis and Family Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next weekend, Pope Francis may release his greatly anticipated response to a key bishops\u2019 meeting on family issues that took place last fall. At that meeting, bishops discussed the church\u2019s response to a host of issues, including some that are very controversial. The bishops were especially divided over whether the church should change its rules against communion for divorced Catholics who have remarried. Many American Catholics have been pushing for that change and others. Correspondent Deborah Potter reported on some of the difficult family issues facing the church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis may soon release his greatly anticipated response to a key bishops\u2019 meeting on family issues that took place last fall. At that meeting, bishops discussed the church\u2019s response to a host of issues, including some that are very controversial. The bishops were especially divided over whether the church should change its rules against communion for divorced Catholics who have remarried. Many American Catholics have been pushing for that change and others. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2016\/03\/11\/september-25-2015-pope-francis-family-issues\/27311\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":27330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[7215,9609,7800,1352,11054,1821],"class_list":["post-27311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-american-catholics","tag-contraception","tag-divorce","tag-marriage","tag-pope-francis-i","tag-vatican","topics-culture-and-society","topics-religious-leaders","faith-catholic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>March 11, 2016 ~ Pope Francis and Family Issues | March 11, 2016 | Religion &amp; 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