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From Oregon comes this intriguing piece<\/strong><\/a> about yet another married Episcopalian minister who has become a Catholic priest:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Two things set Father Bryce McProud apart from most newly ordained Roman Catholic priests: He once tried out for the Metropolitan Opera and placed highly enough to consider it a career option. And he\u2019s married.<\/p>\n

The opera part is easy to understand. About 40 years ago, about the same time he was considering a calling to the ministry, he \u201csang quite a lot,\u201d and apparently very well. \u201cAt that point, I had to choose between opera and the church,\u201d McProud said. \u201cI prayed about it a lot and decided to go with the church.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for being married, McProud, a longtime minister in the Episcopal church and now parochial vicar at St. Mary Catholic Church in Eugene, received a dispensation from Pope Benedict XVI that allowed him to make the switch and, as an already married priest, to bring his wife along.<\/p>\n

Since July 1, after a few weeks of volunteering in local parishes following his ordination on June 4, he has been a full-time member of the St. Mary clergy, celebrating Mass, officiating at funerals and hearing confessions of parishioners in the old brick church at 11th Avenue and Charnelton Street.<\/p>\n

He and his wife, Deanna McProud, have been married \u201calmost 41 years,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a son, and we have two wonderful grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n

Upward of 100 Episcopal priests in the United States have sought to become Catholic in recent years, reflecting schisms that have arisen within their ranks \u2014 originally an offshoot of the Church of England \u2014 over issues) such as same-sex marriage, ordination of women, abortion rights and updating of the Book of Common Prayer, the Episcopal church\u2019s equivalent of the Catholic missal.<\/p>\n

Their recent acceptance by the Roman Catholic Church dates back to 1980, after Pope John Paul II received a petition from the Catholic bishops in the United States on behalf of disaffected Episcopalians and issued a \u201cpastoral provision\u201d designed specifically to allow former Episcopal priests into the Church of Rome fold.<\/p>\n

The pope\u2019s response opened the door to two possibilities. An entire Episcopal congregation could become part of the Roman Catholic Church but still remain as its own parish and use an Anglicized version of the Mass, including either the traditional or modernized Book of Common Prayer.<\/p>\n

And, on a case-by-case basis, married Episcopal priests could be ordained into the Roman Catholic clergy without affecting the Catholic value placed on celibacy of its priests.<\/p>\n

McProud\u2019s disaffection with Episcopal doctrine started in the early 1990s, \u201cafter the church\u2019s general convention voted to become pro-choice on abortion,\u201d he said. \u201cThe other major issues were not as important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He had been ordained into the Episcopal priesthood in 1978 and had served in parishes in Yakima, Wash., and Albany before coming to St. Matthew\u2019s Episcopal Church in Eugene in 1985.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the rest<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Congratulations and welcome, Fr. McProud. \u00a0Ad multos annos! <\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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