{"id":11994,"date":"2009-03-30T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/married_catholic_priests_gain_acceptance\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T17:21:31","slug":"married_catholic_priests_gain_acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11994","title":{"rendered":"Married Catholic priests gain acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are few women who can say they are married to a Roman Catholic priest. And few people who can say their dad is the man whom Catholic churchgoers address formally as &#8220;Father Steve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Cindy Anderson and her three sons can, and they were among the rush of congregants who gathered for 10 a.m. mass on a recent Sunday at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church in Goodrich.<\/p>\n<p>The parish priest is Cindy&#8217;s husband and the father of Austin, 24, Steven Jr., 14, and Christian, 11. The Rev. Steve Anderson has been a Catholic priest since 2003, when he became the second priest in Michigan to be ordained under an exception to the Catholic Church&#8217;s celibacy rule for married ministers serving some Protestant denominations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20090329\/NEWS06\/903290380\/Catholics+accepting+of+married+priests\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few women who can say they are married to a Roman Catholic priest. And few people who can say their dad is the man whom Catholic churchgoers address formally as &#8220;Father Steve.&#8221; But Cindy Anderson and her three<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11994\">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":[48,39,42,98,154,184,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994","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=11994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}