{"id":7753,"date":"2019-10-08T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=7753"},"modified":"2019-10-08T08:59:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T14:59:39","slug":"married-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/married-priests-7753.htm","title":{"rendered":"Married Priests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Latin Rite, in general, only celibates are ordained priests. This practice has been blamed by many for a seeming shortage of priests, and led to headlines such as<\/p>\n<h1>Will ordaining married priests save the Catholic Church from decline?<\/h1>\n<p>But this chart about the Anglican Church in Canada suggests that other forces are at work:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Anglicans-Canada-statistics.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[7753]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7755\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Anglicans-Canada-statistics-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Anglicans-Canada-statistics-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/Anglicans-Canada-statistics.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since 1961 there has been about a 90% decline in baptisms, and about a 50% increase in the number of clergy. And the Anglicans ordain women and married men.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-7753\" data-postid=\"7753\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-7753 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Latin Rite, in general, only celibates are ordained priests. This practice has been blamed by many for a seeming shortage of priests, and led to headlines such as Will ordaining married priests save the Catholic Church from decline? But this chart about the Anglican Church in Canada suggests that other forces are at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglicans","category-catholic-church","category-celibacy","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7756,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7753\/revisions\/7756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}