{"id":2,"date":"2011-09-09T13:13:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T13:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/thecc\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-03-08T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T16:59:45","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/files\/2011\/09\/cspri_new_black.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2848 aligncenter\" alt=\"CSPRI logo\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/files\/2011\/09\/cspri_new_black-300x127.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/files\/2011\/09\/cspri_new_black-300x127.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/files\/2011\/09\/cspri_new_black.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This blog is devoted not only to <strong>academics<\/strong>, but also to<strong> practitioners and professionals<\/strong> within the Catholic Church who are seeking to better understand and engage their religious community.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Conversation blog is an <strong>extension of the Catholic Social and Pastoral Research Initiative<\/strong> (CSPRI- pronounced CaSPRI), which was conceived as a collaboration between the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/icl.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for\u00a0Church Life<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csrs.nd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for the Study of Religion and Society<\/a>. CSPRI seeks to conduct top-notch social science research that is<strong> theologically informed and pastorally relevant<\/strong>, but we also desire to provide institutional<strong> spaces where other researchers<\/strong> studying Catholics and Catholicism<strong> can engage the broader Catholic public<\/strong> with their findings and insights. This blog is one such attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Our hope is that\u00a0researchers, by interacting with interested and engaged participants at all levels within the Church, will be<strong> better able to identify and answer research questions<\/strong> that are of practical&#8211;as well as academic&#8211;interest\u00a0to the Catholic community.<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"www.cspri.nd.edu\" target=\"_blank\">www.cspri.nd.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cspri\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cspri<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is devoted not only to academics, but also to practitioners and professionals within the Catholic Church who are seeking to better understand and engage their religious community. The Catholic Conversation blog is an extension of the Catholic Social &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}