{"id":8035,"date":"2003-07-30T08:34:57","date_gmt":"2003-07-30T13:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/07\/30\/priestly-pilot\/"},"modified":"2003-07-30T08:34:57","modified_gmt":"2003-07-30T13:34:57","slug":"priestly-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/07\/priestly-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"Priestly Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">The two men inside make final checks before maneuvering the aircraft toward the runway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">After just a few minutes they get the &#8220;all clear,&#8221; and the plane begins its short trip down the concrete stretch, gathering speed before the nose lifts off the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">For the Rev. Mel Hemann this flight is like many others, but for his co-pilot, Jacek Rejman, it&#8217;s like very few he&#8217;s flown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Hemann, 74, is one of the founding members of the National Association of Flying Priests. He&#8217;s been making flights like this one to St. Louis for years, ferrying members of the clergy and himself to meetings and conventions across the state or country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;I was stationed in Dubuque for a while, and as a rule of thumb anything west of Waterloo and I would fly (there),&#8221; Hemann said. &#8220;If you look at the priests as the CEO of a business, from a business point of view, it just makes sense. Time is money.&#8221;<br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcfcourier.com\/articles\/2003\/07\/30\/news\/metro\/337cba8486bb492486256d7200483d99.txt\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">National Association of Flying Priests?  I wonder if their patron saint is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic-forum.com\/saints\/saintj04.htm\">Joseph of Cupertino<\/a>.  I guess a plane is more sensible than an aerodynamic habit like <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtoys.com\/library\/flyingnun\/\">Sally Fields<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.catholic-forum.com\/saints\/saintj04.jpg\" align=\"center\" width=\"181\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two men inside make final checks before maneuvering the aircraft toward the runway. After just a few minutes they get the &#8220;all clear,&#8221; and the plane begins its short&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-8035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}