{"id":3010,"date":"2011-12-11T05:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:05:18","slug":"can-a-catholic-be-a-libera-can-a-catholic-be-a-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3010","title":{"rendered":"Can a Catholic be a liberal? Can a Catholic be a conservative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal? Yes, but with an asterick.<\/p>\n<p>A conservative? Yes, but with an asterick.<\/p>\n<p>But never mind what I think, here&#39;s what Boston College author and philosophy teacher Peter Kreeft thinks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/wsj\/lifestyles\/faith-and-values\/religion\/in-the-spirit-can-a-catholic-also-be-a-liberal\/article_665e7840-178d-11e1-9e1a-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1f03P1uG5\" target=\"_self\">In the Spirit: Can a Catholic also be a liberal? <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&quot;To be a Catholic is to take the whole deal,&quot; he told the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal? Yes, but with an asterick. A conservative? Yes, but with an asterick. But never mind what I think, here&#39;s what Boston College author and philosophy teacher Peter Kreeft thinks. In the Spirit: Can a Catholic also be a liberal? &quot;To be a Catholic is to take the whole deal,&quot; he told the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5937,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions\/5937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}