{"id":7981,"date":"2003-07-09T12:47:41","date_gmt":"2003-07-09T17:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/07\/09\/priest-makes-celibacy-confession-during-mass\/"},"modified":"2003-07-09T12:47:41","modified_gmt":"2003-07-09T17:47:41","slug":"priest-makes-celibacy-confession-during-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/07\/priest-makes-celibacy-confession-during-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest makes celibacy confession during Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">A Roman Catholic priest has confessed he broke his vow of celibacy by fathering two children, to his congregation during Mass.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Father Oscar Ornopia&#8217;s public confession in Cebu, the Philippines, revealed he fathered two sons with a woman and asked for forgiveness, according to Victor Maliluya &#8211; president of a church pastoral council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Maliluya says Ornopia deliberately did not wear a ceremonial sash used for Mass, when he made his confession to churchgoers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">He quoted the priest as saying: &#8220;I feel that I&#8217;m no longer worthy to say Mass with you now because of the incident that had happened. That I have two sons is true, so please forgive me because I have sinned against my vow of celibacy.&#8221;<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_798230.html\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Roman Catholic priest has confessed he broke his vow of celibacy by fathering two children, to his congregation during Mass. Father Oscar Ornopia&#8217;s public confession in Cebu, the Philippines,&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-7981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981","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=7981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}