{"id":18597,"date":"2010-03-17T21:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/australian_bishops_lead_crossing_to_rome\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:34:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:34:29","slug":"australian_bishops_lead_crossing_to_rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18597","title":{"rendered":"Australian bishops lead crossing to Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four bishops, 40 priests and thousands of parishioners from the Traditional Anglican Communion will petition the Vatican by Easter to be received into the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop John Hepworth of Adelaide, primate of the TAC, said 26 parishes in Western Australia, Tasmania, NSW, Victoria, far north Queensland and South Australia hoped to be united with Rome by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as 100 Anglican parishes in the US and some in Canada have announced their decisions to convert to Catholicism en masse, voting to take up an offer made by Pope Benedict XVI in November in his apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus (On Groups of Anglicans). The initiative allows Anglican bishops, priests and entire congregations, if they wish, to join Rome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/nation\/australian-bishops-lead-crossing-to-rome\/story-e6frg6nf-1225842070335\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four bishops, 40 priests and thousands of parishioners from the Traditional Anglican Communion will petition the Vatican by Easter to be received into the Catholic Church. Archbishop John Hepworth of Adelaide, primate of the TAC, said 26 parishes in Western<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18597\">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":[36,50,42,204,158,154,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-australia-nz","category-ecumenical-relations","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597","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=18597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}