{"id":86533,"date":"2019-11-13T17:11:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T22:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86533"},"modified":"2019-11-13T19:53:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:53:23","slug":"npr-u-s-roman-catholic-bishops-elect-their-first-latino-president-archbishop-jose-gomez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86533","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) U.S. Roman Catholic Bishops Elect Their First Latino President: Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops selected Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez as their next president Tuesday, making him the first Latino leader of a group whose roots stretch back more than 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I promise to serve with dedication and love, and to always try to follow Jesus Christ and seek his will for his Church here in the U.S.,&#8221; Gomez said, calling his election an honor.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez, 67, has been the archbishop of Los Angeles, the largest Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S., for most of the past decade. His previous posts include stints in Denver and San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/11\/12\/778541268\/u-s-bishops-elect-their-first-latino-president-archbishop-jos-gomez\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has selected Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez as their next president \u2014 making him the first Latino leader in the group&#8217;s more than 100-year history.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/egvGlQXVqt\">https:\/\/t.co\/egvGlQXVqt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NPR (@NPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NPR\/status\/1194346649503465472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops selected Archbishop Jos\u00e9 Gomez as their next president Tuesday, making him the first Latino leader of a group whose roots stretch back more than 100 years. &#8220;I promise to serve with dedication and love,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=86533\">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":[209,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86533","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=86533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86536,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86533\/revisions\/86536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}