{"id":15873,"date":"2009-11-02T05:29:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T05:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/former_u-s-_episcopal_churches_in_texas_pave_way_for_catholic_switch\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T05:29:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T05:29:47","slug":"former_u-s-_episcopal_churches_in_texas_pave_way_for_catholic_switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15873","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Episcopal churches in Texas pave way for Catholic switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Allan Hawkins, who leads Saint Mary the Virgin church outside of Dallas, said the Vatican&#8217;s decision could start unifying the Catholic and Anglican churches after a centuries-old rift.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I would live to see this day,&#8221; Hawkins said during a recent Sunday Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Mary the Virgin is one of three churches in Texas to become Catholic after the Vatican&#8217;s 1980 approval of the &#8220;Anglican use&#8221; provision, which allowed U.S. churches to convert on a case-by-case basis but also retain their traditions and identity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/33566629\/ns\/world_news-world_faith\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Allan Hawkins, who leads Saint Mary the Virgin church outside of Dallas, said the Vatican&#8217;s decision could start unifying the Catholic and Anglican churches after a centuries-old rift. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I would live to see this day,&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15873\">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":[36,42,66,154,636,364,376,647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873","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=15873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}