{"id":7591,"date":"2003-08-18T19:20:45","date_gmt":"2003-08-19T00:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/08\/18\/archbishop-censures-priest-on-same-sex-sermon\/"},"modified":"2003-08-18T19:20:45","modified_gmt":"2003-08-19T00:20:45","slug":"archbishop-censures-priest-on-same-sex-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/08\/archbishop-censures-priest-on-same-sex-sermon\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop censures priest on same-sex sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">ST. JOHN&#8217;S &#8211; The Archbishop of St. John&#8217;s defended his censure of a local parish priest Monday, saying Father Paul Lundrigan&#8217;s comments were unacceptable within the Catholic Church. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">In a sermon last week, Lundrigan challenged the Catholic Church&#8217;s campaign against legalizing same-sex marriage. Lundrigan called the church hypocritical, criticizing it for fighting same-sex marriages while it remained silent about sexual abuse by clergy members. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">On Sunday, Archbishop Brendan O&#8217;Brien spoke to Lundrigan&#8217;s two parishes. It is a priest&#8217;s responsibility to deliver the church&#8217;s official teachings, including any scripture-based position the church takes, O&#8217;Brien told them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">But Lundrigan has shown repentance and will be permitted to remain working in the parishes of St. Kevin&#8217;s in Goulds and St. Joseph&#8217;s in Petty Harbour, he said. <br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/stories\/2003\/08\/18\/nfld_priest030818\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. JOHN&#8217;S &#8211; The Archbishop of St. John&#8217;s defended his censure of a local parish priest Monday, saying Father Paul Lundrigan&#8217;s comments were unacceptable within the Catholic Church. In a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}