{"id":11413,"date":"2009-02-23T17:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/north_carolina_roman_catholic_diocese_begins_ministry_for_gays_lesbians\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T17:00:01","slug":"north_carolina_roman_catholic_diocese_begins_ministry_for_gays_lesbians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11413","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Roman Catholic diocese begins ministry for gays, lesbians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, N.C., is starting a new ministry to gays and lesbians. Yet those who have embraced that identity may not like it.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry is called Courage, and its aim, in the words of its executive director, is to &#8220;assist men and women who are afflicted with the thorn of same-sex attraction.&#8221; A 29-year-old international ministry with about 90 U.S. chapters, the Courage Apostolate will serve as a kind of support group &#8211; like Alcoholics Anonymous &#8211; for men and women who want to remain celibate.<\/p>\n<p>The move is part of a more aggressive push by the dioceses of Raleigh and Charlotte, N.C., to march in step with the Vatican on the issue of homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/living\/faith\/story\/1235804.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, N.C., is starting a new ministry to gays and lesbians. Yet those who have embraced that identity may not like it. The ministry is called Courage, and its aim, in the words of its<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11413\">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":[39,42,154,177,364,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413","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=11413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}