{"id":7754,"date":"2003-10-02T13:07:46","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T18:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/10\/02\/catholic-diocese-withdraws-invitation-to-episcopalians-over-gay-issue\/"},"modified":"2003-10-02T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T18:07:46","slug":"catholic-diocese-withdraws-invitation-to-episcopalians-over-gay-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/10\/catholic-diocese-withdraws-invitation-to-episcopalians-over-gay-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic diocese withdraws invitation to Episcopalians over gay issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (AP) &#8212; The Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine withdrew its invitation Wednesday for the Episcopalian Diocese to use one of its churches for a ceremony because the pro-gay leader of the Episcopalian Church was slated to attend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The local Catholic diocese rescinded the invitation after Frank Griswold, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, defended in a news article the church&#8217;s confirmation of a gay bishop and argued that the Bible does not condemn same-sex relationships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Bishop Victor Galeone &#8220;felt a good number of his people would be offended to learn that an Episcopalian bishop, that holds a position that is radically opposed to what both the church and scripture teach about homosexuality, is using one of our facilities,&#8221; Kathleen Bagg-Morgan, a spokeswoman for the local Catholic diocese said in a statement.<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/news\/local\/news-article.aspx?storyid=8697\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">My Bishop, Victor Galeone, keeps impressing me.  This is excellent that he was concerned about scandalizing the faithful and prevented it from happening.  I have been a couple of times to the Church they were going to use.  It is fairly large with a beautiful golden dome and a large tabernacle.  Unfortunately they have no crucifix in the sanctuary, but a risen Jesus sans cross.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stjosephsjax.org\/risenchrist.jpg\" width=\"154\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (AP) &#8212; The Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine withdrew its invitation Wednesday for the Episcopalian Diocese to use one of its churches for a ceremony because the&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-7754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754","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=7754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}