{"id":9207,"date":"2014-04-25T05:01:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=9207"},"modified":"2014-04-25T05:02:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:02:56","slug":"rank-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/rank-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRank Humility\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/St-Margaret-Mary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/St-Margaret-Mary.jpg\" alt=\"St Margaret Mary\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9208\" \/><\/a>Writing in <em>The Spectator<\/em>, Tom Hodgkinson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/books\/9145321\/the-dark-box-by-john-cornwell-review\/\">reviews<\/a> John Cornwell\u2019s history of the Roman Catholic ritual of confession. I haven\u2019t read the book, and Cornwell can sometimes go too far in his criticism of the Catholic church, but this caught my eye:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I smirked \u2014 I occasionally snickered \u2014 at the madder facts of self-mortification, whereby in the Middle Ages the (frequently female) faithful might flaunt their holiness in acts of rank humility. Elizabeth of Hungary kissed the feet of lepers; Margaret Marie Alacoque ate vomit; Catherine of Genoa, it\u2019s said, sucked the pus of a plague victim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okey dokey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in The Spectator, Tom Hodgkinson reviews John Cornwell\u2019s history of the Roman Catholic ritual of confession. I haven\u2019t read the book, and Cornwell can sometimes go too far in his criticism of the Catholic church, but this caught my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/rank-humility\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[1075],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9209,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions\/9209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}