{"id":2310,"date":"2015-04-12T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2025-09-28T12:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T12:58:37","slug":"catholic-priestly-ordinations-up-25-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2310","title":{"rendered":"Catholic priestly ordinations up 25% this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/news\/headlines\/index.cfm?storyid=24557\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">595 men are expected to be ordained to the priesthood in the United States in 2015, an increase of 24.7% over last year\u2019s figure of 477, according to data released by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>By way of comparison, in 1965 there were 994 ordinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>595 men are expected to be ordained to the priesthood in the United States in 2015, an increase of 24.7% over last year\u2019s figure of 477, according to data released by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. By way of comparison, in 1965 there were 994 ordinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6013,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}