{"id":38202,"date":"2013-05-08T16:15:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/irish_times_denis_nulty_will_become_irelands_youngest_catholic_bishop\/"},"modified":"2013-05-08T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:15:22","slug":"irish_times_denis_nulty_will_become_irelands_youngest_catholic_bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38202","title":{"rendered":"(Irish Times) Denis Nulty will become Ireland&#39;s youngest Catholic bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new bishop of Kildare and Leighlin has said these are \u201cdifficult days\u201d\u009d for priests as they see their numbers dwindle but pledged to work to encourage vocations and develop \u201ccollaborative ministry\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>Fr Denis Nulty, who turns 50 next month, will become the country\u2019s youngest Catholic bishop when he is ordained at a ceremony in Carlow Cathedral on a date yet to be confirmed but likely to be during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Slane in Co Meath and currently the parish priest in Drogheda, Fr Nulty will fill a vacancy in the diocese which has existed since December of 2009 when Bishop James Moriarty offered his resignation following publication of the Murphy report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/social-affairs\/religion-and-beliefs\/bishop-elect-admits-these-are-difficult-days-for-priests-1.1385070\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new bishop of Kildare and Leighlin has said these are \u201cdifficult days\u201d\u009d for priests as they see their numbers dwindle but pledged to work to encourage vocations and develop \u201ccollaborative ministry\u201d\u009d. Fr Denis Nulty, who turns 50 next month,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38202\">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":[39,50,42,199,325,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ireland","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38202","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=38202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}