{"id":10560,"date":"2009-01-06T19:02:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T19:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/living_church_bishop_bruno_dispute_is_now_a_pastoral_issue\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T19:02:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T19:02:25","slug":"living_church_bishop_bruno_dispute_is_now_a_pastoral_issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10560","title":{"rendered":"Living Church: Bishop Bruno: \u201d\u02dcDispute is Now a Pastoral Issue\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a brief interview with a reporter for The Living Church shortly after the decision was announced on Jan. 5, Bishop Bruno said he was \u201coverjoyed\u201d\u009d at the verdict and considered all issues at dispute to be decided in their favor. Bishop Bruno said his next step will be to initiate dialogue individually with the clergy and lay leadership of the three churches in the hope that it will lead to reconciliation and perhaps the eventual voluntary return of those congregations to The Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to see if they are willing to talk; to see if they want to return to The Episcopal Church,\u201d\u009d Bishop Bruno said. He added that the offer of dialogue carried no preconditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttorneys handle legal issues,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cThis is now a pastoral issue.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingchurch.org\/news\/news-updates\/2009\/1\/5\/bishop-bruno-dispute-is-now-a-pastoral-issue\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a brief interview with a reporter for The Living Church shortly after the decision was announced on Jan. 5, Bishop Bruno said he was \u201coverjoyed\u201d\u009d at the verdict and considered all issues at dispute to be decided in their<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10560\">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":[36,39,66,114,376,652,647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-los-angeles","category-tec-departing-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560","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=10560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}