{"id":14297,"date":"2012-04-26T08:15:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=14297"},"modified":"2012-04-28T21:08:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T03:08:09","slug":"what-sisters-meant-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/26\/what-sisters-meant-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What Sisters Meant to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>File this under &#8220;What On Earth Is Going On In Our Church?&#8221; (Should that become a new category at <em>Pray Tell?)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fr. James Martin, SJ, posted on &#8220;What sisters meant to me.&#8221; And then it got ugly. 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