{"id":34081,"date":"2012-08-16T15:20:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/leaving_in_sorrow_former_roman_catholics_start_new_church_in_hickory_n-c\/"},"modified":"2012-08-16T15:20:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:20:12","slug":"leaving_in_sorrow_former_roman_catholics_start_new_church_in_hickory_n-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34081","title":{"rendered":"&#39;Leaving in sorrow,&#39; former Roman Catholics start new church in Hickory, N.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The first reading comes from the Book of Kings, with an angel nudging an exhausted and distraught Elijah, telling him to get up and leave.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Tom Sanford and his congregation have done just that.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford left the Catholic priesthood more than a quarter century ago. But now he&#8217;s back behind the altar. He&#8217;s pastor of a new spiritual community, born out of his frustration with what he believes is the philosophical backsliding of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2012\/08\/15\/2400682\/leaving-in-sorrow-catholics-start.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first reading comes from the Book of Kings, with an angel nudging an exhausted and distraught Elijah, telling him to get up and leave. The Rev. Tom Sanford and his congregation have done just that. Sanford left the Catholic<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34081\">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":[48,39,50,42,209,172,154,184,636,108,364,173,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ecclesiology","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-sacramental-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081","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=34081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}