{"id":735,"date":"2026-03-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=735"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:19:25","slug":"clerical-privilege-and-everyday-human-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"“Clerical privilege and everyday human experience”"},"content":{"rendered":"

30 days after the election of Pope Francis,\u00a0a CNN\u00a0blogger made this observation, “Whenever given the choice between clerical privilege and everyday human experience, he opts for the human.”**<\/p>\n

It is a curious implication for one of Jesus’ followers,\u00a0the\u00a0gap between “clerical privilege” and “everyday human experience.”<\/p>\n

“Clerical privilege” isn’t new. The culture of the ancient temple cultivated it, even the one in Jesus’ experience.<\/p>\n

Jesus even told a story about loving one’s neighbor that contrasted the temple hierarchy with a looked-down-on foreigner (Luke 10).<\/p>\n

Jesus himself:\u00a0he rejected the choice and embraced everyday human experience. Yet clerical privilege persists.<\/p>\n

Become better acquainted with Jesus’ everyday human experience. We invite you to follow <\/a>this year to Easter with<\/span>Jesus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\n** Michael D’Antonio, “One month in, Pope Francis is on the right track” <http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/04\/13\/opinion\/dantonio-pope-francis-first-month\/index.html?hpt=op_t1<\/a>>, Date Accessed: April 13, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

30 days after the election of Pope Francis,\u00a0a CNN\u00a0blogger made this observation, “Whenever given the choice between clerical privilege and everyday human experience, he opts for the human.”** It is a curious implication for one of Jesus’ followers,\u00a0the\u00a0gap between “clerical privilege” and “everyday human experience.” “Clerical privilege” isn’t new. The culture of the ancient temple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experience-reconsidered","category-telling-the-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}