{"id":18451,"date":"2013-03-19T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=18451"},"modified":"2013-05-19T08:08:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T14:08:51","slug":"reading-the-franciscan-tea-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/19\/reading-the-franciscan-tea-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Franciscan Tea Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam A.J. DeVille, Associate Professor of Theology at the\u00a0 University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, IN and author of <em>Orthodoxy\u00a0 and the Roman Papacy<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearreligion.org\/articles\/2013\/03\/19\/reading_the_franciscan_tea_leaves.html\" target=\"_blank\">on Pope Francis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile I applaud the gestures [of simplification- ed.] and the intent, they give me unease only insofar as they give cheer to those iconoclasts who think that beauty is bad. 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