{"id":8659,"date":"2008-09-25T01:03:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T01:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rowan_williams_becomes_first_ever_anglican_leader_to_accept_visions_of_virg\/"},"modified":"2008-09-25T01:03:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T01:03:49","slug":"rowan_williams_becomes_first_ever_anglican_leader_to_accept_visions_of_virg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8659","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams becomes first ever Anglican leader to accept  visions of Virgin Mary as fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, was today branded a \u201d\u02dcpapal puppet\u2019 after he became the first leader of the Church of England to accept visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes as historical fact.<\/p>\n<p>He asserted that 18 visions of Our Lady allegedly experienced by  Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 were true.<\/p>\n<p>His words shocked millions of Protestants worldwide because they not only  signified a break with Protestant teaching on the Virgin Mary but also Dr   Williams\u2019s personal acceptance of the Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate   Conception, which is explicitly linked to the apparitions.<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop made his remarks during a three-day visit to the shrine in  the French Pyrenees &#8211; the first ever by a leader of the Church of  England.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1060951\/Rowan-Williams-Anglican-leader-accept-visions-Virgin-Mary-fact.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, was today branded a \u201d\u02dcpapal puppet\u2019 after he became the first leader of the Church of England to accept visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes as historical fact. He asserted that 18<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8659\">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":[36,50,42,67,200,468,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-europe","category-france","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659","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=8659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}