{"id":30843,"date":"2012-02-14T02:25:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T02:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_jerseys_episcopalians_keep_the_faith_despite_papal_invitation\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T02:25:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T02:25:58","slug":"new_jerseys_episcopalians_keep_the_faith_despite_papal_invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30843","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey&#39;s Episcopalians keep the faith despite papal invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have lots of differences of opinion, but we honor the differences we all bring and a have a commitment to live and work together,\u201d\u009d said Bishop Mark Beckwith of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, which covers North Jersey. \u201cIt\u2019s not a problem in this diocese.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The new national diocese, called an \u201cordinariate,\u201d\u009d was created to accommodate Episcopal congregations whose members disagree with their church\u2019s liberal stances on matters like same-sex marriage and the ordination of women and gays. The Episcopal Church, the main U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion, has some 2 million members.<\/p>\n<p>Beckwith said none of the 106 congregations in the Episcopal Diocese of Newark is planning to leave. And Bishop George Councell, who heads the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, which covers central and southern parts of the state, said the same.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/news\/state\/CHURCH_0212.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have lots of differences of opinion, but we honor the differences we all bring and a have a commitment to live and work together,\u201d\u009d said Bishop Mark Beckwith of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, which covers North Jersey. \u201cIt\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30843\">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":[36,42,66,154,364,372,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30843","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=30843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}