{"id":10482,"date":"2009-01-02T05:24:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T05:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_marshall_of_bethlehem_responds_to_ny_daily_news_story_about_father_g\/"},"modified":"2009-01-02T05:24:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T05:24:45","slug":"bishop_marshall_of_bethlehem_responds_to_ny_daily_news_story_about_father_g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10482","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Marshall of Bethlehem responds to NY Daily News Story about Father Greg Malia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<i><a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/index.php\/t19\/article\/19107\">Please see the original post on this here<\/a>.<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>I read the Daily News article with deep distress and know its contents will trouble many parishioners. The allegations made in the article, if true, constitute a serious violation of ordination vows to be &#8220;a wholesome example&#8221; to a priest&#8217;s people. If true, they may also violate other canonical provisions and certainly portray an unacceptable idea of Christian stewardship.<\/p>\n<p>The Episcopal Church provides due process when such issues arise, however, and no summary judgment can be made by me unilaterally. During the time that the Standing Committee is investigating Fr. Malia&#8217;s activities, I am removing him from his appointment as my vicar at St. James in Dundaff, and will be inhibiting him from the exercise of priestly ministry. The conservative group he has gathered around himself will be traumatized, and I will ask two priests in the locale to minister to them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diobeth.typepad.com\/diobeth_newspin\/2008\/12\/from-bishop-paul-regarding-todays-ny-daily-news-story-about-father-greg-malia.html\">Read it alll<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Please see the original post on this here.) I read the Daily News article with deep distress and know its contents will trouble many parishioners. The allegations made in the article, if true, constitute a serious violation of ordination vows<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10482\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,66,184,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}