{"id":28291,"date":"2011-09-18T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cen_schism_looms_for_the_church_of_ireland\/"},"modified":"2011-09-18T00:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T00:00:08","slug":"cen_schism_looms_for_the_church_of_ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28291","title":{"rendered":"(CEN) Schism looms for the Church of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schism within the Church of Ireland could split the church between Ulster and the Republic of Ireland, church leaders fear, in the wake of revelations the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory permitted the Dean of Leithlin to register a same-sex civil union.<\/p>\n<p>The Primate of All-Ireland, the Archbishop of Armagh Dr. Alan Harper told the Sept 11 \u201cSunday Sequence\u201d\u009d programme of BBC Radio Ulster he was \u201cvery, very concerned at the potential for division\u201d\u009d within the church over homosexuality.  He also conceded that clergy criticisms over a leadership \u201cvacuum\u201d\u009d among the bishops were \u201ca fair comment in all sorts of ways.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geoconger.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/16\/schism-looms-for-the-church-of-ireland-the-church-of-england-newspaper-sept-16-2011-p-6\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schism within the Church of Ireland could split the church between Ulster and the Republic of Ireland, church leaders fear, in the wake of revelations the Bishop of Cashel and Ossory permitted the Dean of Leithlin to register a same-sex<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28291\">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":[36,48,39,50,576,74,409,199,325,114,98,435,184,108,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-ireland","category-england-uk","category-ireland","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28291","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=28291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}