{"id":16073,"date":"2009-11-12T19:09:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/marquette_tribune_converted_churches_combine_anglican_traditions_catholic_v\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T19:09:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:09:31","slug":"marquette_tribune_converted_churches_combine_anglican_traditions_catholic_v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16073","title":{"rendered":"Marquette Tribune: Converted churches combine Anglican traditions, Catholic values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Richard Rodgers of Blessed Sacrament Old Catholic Church in Racine, Wis., has presided over Masses since 1989. But Rodgers isn\u2019t a typical priest \u201d\u201d the 62-year-old pastor is married and has a son and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>A former Episcopalian minister, Rodgers leads a seven-member congregation in the Chicago Diocese of the Old Catholic Church, a hybrid of Roman Catholic and Anglican traditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI left the Episcopal Church because it was slowly descending into chaos,\u201d\u009d Rodgers said, referring to his opposition to the church\u2019s acceptance of openly gay clergy, blessing over same-sex unions and allowance of female priests and bishops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marquettetribune.org\/2009\/11\/12\/news\/anglican-converted-churches-combine-anglican-traditions-catholic-values\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Richard Rodgers of Blessed Sacrament Old Catholic Church in Racine, Wis., has presided over Masses since 1989. But Rodgers isn\u2019t a typical priest \u201d\u201d the 62-year-old pastor is married and has a son and grandchildren. A former Episcopalian<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16073\">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":[36,48,42,66,435,154,184,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073","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=16073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}