{"id":56554,"date":"2016-12-02T16:30:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nc_reporter_irish_rc_priest_warns_of_depression_among_overworked_clerics\/"},"modified":"2016-12-02T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:30:55","slug":"nc_reporter_irish_rc_priest_warns_of_depression_among_overworked_clerics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56554","title":{"rendered":"(NC Reporter) Irish RC priest warns of depression among overworked clerics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irish priests&#8217; ever-increasing workload is threatening to turn this aging, demoralized and declining group into &#8220;sacrament-dispensing machines&#8221; who find pastoral work less and less satisfying, a co-founder of Ireland&#8217;s Association of Catholic Priests has warned.<br \/>\nIn his address to the association&#8217;s annual general meeting in Athlone Nov. 16, Fr. Brendan Hoban highlighted how suicide is on the rise among Irish priests, a group he said was also increasingly prone to depression.<\/p>\n<p>With the vast majority of Irish priests now age 70 or over, elderly diocesan priests are living increasingly isolated and lonely lives and are constantly &#8220;reminded that we no longer really matter, that at best we&#8217;re now little more than a ceremonial presence on the sidelines of life,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/world\/irish-priest-warns-depression-among-overworked-clerics\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish priests&#8217; ever-increasing workload is threatening to turn this aging, demoralized and declining group into &#8220;sacrament-dispensing machines&#8221; who find pastoral work less and less satisfying, a co-founder of Ireland&#8217;s Association of Catholic Priests has warned. In his address to the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56554\">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":[48,39,50,42,199,104,325,435,154,184,129,108,364,604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56554","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-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-ireland","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56554","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=56554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}