{"id":2695,"date":"2010-07-16T10:06:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T18:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2010-07-16T10:06:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T18:06:58","slug":"dear-vatican-fire-your-pr-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/dear-vatican-fire-your-pr-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Vatican: Fire Your PR Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because your messaging is all kinds of messed up\u2014much more than usual.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Vatican today made the &#8220;attempted ordination&#8221; of women one of the gravest crimes under church law, putting it in the same category as clerical sex abuse of minors, heresy and schism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/jul\/15\/vatican-attempted-ordination-women-grave-crime\" target=\"_blank\">Vatican makes attempted ordination of women a grave crime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CatholicCulture.com helpfully explains that these are simply separate issues, and offers suggestions for how to educate the public about what is meant here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the Vatican\u2019s perspective\u2014the canon-law perspective\u2014the issue of women\u2019s ordination belongs in the same category as the issue of sexual abuse; they are both among the most serious offenses that clerics can commit. Fine. But the rest of the world sees these things from a different perspective, and can\u2019t make the same associations. So provide two briefings. First tell reporters about the norms as they apply to sexual abuse, providing story #1 for the headlines. Then, a day or two later, hold a second briefing and explain the norms about women\u2019s ordination. That story will then run separately. The issues won\u2019t be confused, and perhaps the stories won\u2019t be so sarcastic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/commentary\/otn.cfm?id=676\" target=\"_blank\">Remedial public relations for Vatican officials<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, actually. The people who actually read the source document will go ahead and discuss them together, and even the people who are late to the party will still make the connection. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, really, it&#8217;s just hopeless, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because your messaging is all kinds of messed up\u2014much more than usual. The Vatican today made the &#8220;attempted ordination&#8221; of women one of the gravest crimes under church law, putting it in the same category as clerical sex abuse of minors, heresy and schism. Vatican makes attempted ordination of women a grave crime CatholicCulture.com helpfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[33,873,965,1274,1315],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-abuse","tag-ordination","tag-priests","tag-vatican","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-Ht","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}