{"id":11049,"date":"2009-02-02T23:38:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/philadeplphia_inquirer_episcopalians_still_a_house_divided\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T23:38:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T23:38:09","slug":"philadeplphia_inquirer_episcopalians_still_a_house_divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11049","title":{"rendered":"Philadeplphia Inquirer: Episcopalians still a house divided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With its towering stone steeple, marble steps and crimson doors, Pittsburgh&#8217;s Trinity Episcopal Cathedral looks every bit a &#8220;mighty fortress&#8221; of faith.<\/p>\n<p>But the 226-year-old cathedral is a house divided, like the denomination that built it.<\/p>\n<p>Since October, Trinity&#8217;s priests have been saying Sunday Masses for two warring dioceses: the older one composed of 28 theologically moderate or liberal parishes, and one newly created of 66 breakaway conservative parishes. Each claims to be the true &#8220;Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.&#8221; Each is dug in.<\/p>\n<p>The cathedral parish has not taken sides. &#8220;They&#8217;re both in our prayers,&#8221; said the Rev. Canon Catherine Brall, Trinity&#8217;s rector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/front_page\/20090202_Episcopalians_still_a_house_divided.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its towering stone steeple, marble steps and crimson doors, Pittsburgh&#8217;s Trinity Episcopal Cathedral looks every bit a &#8220;mighty fortress&#8221; of faith. But the 226-year-old cathedral is a house divided, like the denomination that built it. Since October, Trinity&#8217;s priests<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11049\">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":[36,66,376,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049","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=11049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}