{"id":1861,"date":"2013-03-15T11:07:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:10:38","slug":"the-pope-is-not-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2013\/03\/the-pope-is-not-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope Is Not the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1862\" alt=\"Pope Francis I\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/577798_574438902574854_304549254_n-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/577798_574438902574854_304549254_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/577798_574438902574854_304549254_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/577798_574438902574854_304549254_n.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I like the new pope\u2014more than I expected, at least. But even so let&#8217;s remember:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The pope is not the church<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be very tempting to forget this fact over the next few days. The pundits, Catholic and otherwise, have been rapt in the suspense of awaiting the arrival of Pope Francis. We heard a lot of impossible hopes for who the next pope would be, along with the less thrilling reality of the actual candidates. But Catholics, along with the masses who have been suddenly and momentarily interested in Catholic affairs, should remember that the papacy is not to be confused with the church itself. At no time should this have been more clear than those strange and special few days when the Catholic Church was a people\u2014an assembly, a community, a mystical body\u2014without a pope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/atheologies\/6914\/\">Read the rest at<\/a> <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1862\" alt=\"Pope Francis I\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/577798_574438902574854_304549254_n-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/577798_574438902574854_304549254_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/577798_574438902574854_304549254_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/577798_574438902574854_304549254_n.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I like the new pope\u2014more than I expected, at least. But even so let&#8217;s remember:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The pope is not the church<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s going to be very tempting to forget this fact over the next few days. The pundits, Catholic and otherwise, have been rapt in the suspense of awaiting the arrival of Pope Francis. We heard a lot of impossible hopes for who the next pope would be, along with the less thrilling reality of the actual candidates. But Catholics, along with the masses who have been suddenly and momentarily interested in Catholic affairs, should remember that the papacy is not to be confused with the church itself. At no time should this have been more clear than those strange and special few days when the Catholic Church was a people\u2014an assembly, a community, a mystical body\u2014without a pope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/atheologies\/6914\/\">Read the rest at<\/a> <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em>.<\/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":[86,67,47,7,22],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-celebrity","tag-family","tag-generation","tag-powers","tag-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}