{"id":39751,"date":"2013-08-26T21:29:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_mystery_priest_at_missouri_accident_hopes_media_hype_wont_obscure_messa\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T21:29:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:29:58","slug":"cns_mystery_priest_at_missouri_accident_hopes_media_hype_wont_obscure_messa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39751","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) &#39;Mystery priest&#39; at Missouri accident hopes media hype won&#39;t obscure message of God&#39;s love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unlikely chain of events made him not only a national celebrity but a stand-in for every priest who has ever ministered to the faithful in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>But Father Patrick Dowling &#8212; who was dubbed a &#8220;mystery priest&#8221; and a &#8220;guardian angel&#8221; after praying with a woman trapped in a wrecked car in northeastern Missouri &#8212; hopes all the hype surrounding his simple deed won&#8217;t overshadow the real message.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God loves us, he is here close to us, and when we&#8217;re in trouble, he&#8217;s there,&#8221; said Father Dowling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1303636.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unlikely chain of events made him not only a national celebrity but a stand-in for every priest who has ever ministered to the faithful in an emergency. But Father Patrick Dowling &#8212; who was dubbed a &#8220;mystery priest&#8221; and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39751\">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":[48,39,42,175,168,104,89,435,154,184,177,108,364,188,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-media","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39751","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=39751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}