{"id":24245,"date":"2011-01-28T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/roman_catholic_church_in_japan_welcomes_its_first_conversion_of_an_anglican\/"},"modified":"2011-01-28T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T17:00:19","slug":"roman_catholic_church_in_japan_welcomes_its_first_conversion_of_an_anglican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24245","title":{"rendered":"Roman Catholic Church in Japan welcomes its first conversion of an Anglican priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father Satoru Kato, 56, until recently an Anglican priest working in England, is set to enter full communion with the Catholic Church and be ordained a Catholic priest.<\/p>\n<p>According to Father Hiroshi Oka of the Saitama diocese, who has been helping coordinate the convert\u2019s entry into that diocese, once he is ordained Kato will work at a welfare institute and parishes as an assistant priest in Gunma Prefecture. Since Christmas, he has been doing interim work in Gunma.<\/p>\n<p>Since Kato is married, Oka began to educate lay Catholics last December, explaining that priests are frequently married in Eastern Rite communities of the Catholic Church. \u201cAt first, there was a general feeling of displeasure among the laity,\u201d\u009d Oka explained, \u201cbut I think that has mostly dissipated.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucanews.com\/2011\/01\/26\/catholic-church-in-japan-welcomes-its-first-conversion-of-an-anglican-priest\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Satoru Kato, 56, until recently an Anglican priest working in England, is set to enter full communion with the Catholic Church and be ordained a Catholic priest. According to Father Hiroshi Oka of the Saitama diocese, who has been<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24245\">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":[36,48,50,42,72,74,201,389,337,435,154,184,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-latest-news","category-anglican-provinces","category-asia","category-church-of-england-coe","category-japan","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\/24245","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=24245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}