{"id":32956,"date":"2012-06-09T19:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T19:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/three_episcopal_priests_to_be_ordained_roman_catholics_today\/"},"modified":"2012-06-09T19:52:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T19:52:47","slug":"three_episcopal_priests_to_be_ordained_roman_catholics_today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32956","title":{"rendered":"(Baltimore Sun) Three Episcopal priests to be ordained Roman Catholics today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three former Episcopal priests said they found themselves more aligned with Roman Catholicism and less with increasingly liberal stances taken by Episcopal leaders. The nation&#8217;s sixth-largest Protestant denomination has been divided in recent years over the ordination of [non-celibate] gay men and women and same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, the Roman Catholic Church has made efforts to draw Anglicans interested in conversion; even Anglican priests who are married can be ordained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It really boils down to understanding of Scripture,&#8221; said Vidal, 52. &#8220;We believe that the Catholic Church is following the early church teachings more consistently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/baltimore-city\/bs-md-ci-ordination-20120608,0,397840.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The three former Episcopal priests said they found themselves more aligned with Roman Catholicism and less with increasingly liberal stances taken by Episcopal leaders. The nation&#8217;s sixth-largest Protestant denomination has been divided in recent years over the ordination of [non-celibate]<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32956\">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":[36,48,42,66,168,435,154,184,636,364,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956","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=32956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}