{"id":17228,"date":"2012-12-13T13:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T19:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=17228"},"modified":"2013-06-11T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:14:20","slug":"cardinal-marx-of-munich-for-intensive-further-thinking-about-womens-ordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/13\/cardinal-marx-of-munich-for-intensive-further-thinking-about-womens-ordination\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Marx of Munich for \u201cIntensive Further Thinking\u201d about Women\u2019s Ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the archbishop of Munich, said this week that when Jesus called God \u201cFather,\u201d this was not to be understood in a gendered way (\u201cgeschlechtlich\u201d). 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