{"id":16256,"date":"2009-11-22T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T18:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/marriage_drives_korean_priests_to_anglican_church\/"},"modified":"2009-11-22T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T18:01:19","slug":"marriage_drives_korean_priests_to_anglican_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16256","title":{"rendered":"Marriage drives Korean priests to Anglican church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church in Korea has lost four priests to the Anglicans in recent years, with marriage cited as the most important reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to marry and at the same time serve as pastors,\u201d\u009d Anglican Fr Peter Lee Kyong-nae, himself a former Catholic seminarian, told UCA News. Two more Catholic priests are currently preparing to become Anglican priests, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe priests made an honest and courageous decision to leave the Catholic Church in order to build a family, and they gave up all the privileges they enjoyed in the Catholic Church,\u201d\u009d Fr Lee said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cathnewsasia.com\/2009\/11\/20\/marriage-drives-korean-priests-to-anglican-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic Church in Korea has lost four priests to the Anglicans in recent years, with marriage cited as the most important reason. \u201cThey want to marry and at the same time serve as pastors,\u201d\u009d Anglican Fr Peter Lee Kyong-nae,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16256\">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":[36,50,42,72,201,339,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-latest-news","category-asia","category-korea","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16256","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=16256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}