{"id":3046,"date":"2011-10-10T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:51:05","slug":"episcopal-parish-in-maryland-converts-to-catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":"Episcopal Parish in Maryland converts to Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting &#8211; thay had been a Anglo-Catholic parish, with rites very similar to Roman Catholicism, but still part of the Episcopal communion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/episcopal-parish-in-bladensburg-converts-to-roman-catholic-church\/2011\/10\/09\/gIQACMAfYL_story.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads\" target=\"_self\">At the basilica, before the archbishop, parishioners stood for Communion. But at St. Luke\u2019s, they\u2019ll be allowed to kneel under the guidelines laid out by the Vatican in 2009 when it announced plans to create a special body that would let American Anglicans keep some of their traditions, including their married priests.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Members of St. Luke\u2019s said they converted because of their longing for one clear religious authority.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">They said they didn\u2019t like the range of views that Anglican clerics expressed on issues such as same-sex relationships and Christianity\u2019s sole claim to God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting &#8211; thay had been a Anglo-Catholic parish, with rites very similar to Roman Catholicism, but still part of the Episcopal communion. At the basilica, before the archbishop, parishioners stood for Communion. But at St. Luke\u2019s, they\u2019ll be allowed to kneel under the guidelines laid out by the Vatican in 2009 when it announced plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","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=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6361,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/6361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}