{"id":2784,"date":"2007-09-13T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2007\/09\/married-clergy\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:59:42","slug":"married-clergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2007\/09\/married-clergy.html","title":{"rendered":"Married Clergy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_TzorWGX-a9A\/Ruloq-U7B4I\/AAAAAAAACTY\/RswFuNPmo-k\/s1600-h\/bergman.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_TzorWGX-a9A\/Ruloq-U7B4I\/AAAAAAAACTY\/RswFuNPmo-k\/s320\/bergman.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While Roman Catholic priests may not marry, Bergman was ordained under a Pastoral Provision approved by Pope John Paul II in 1980. Bergman was an Episcopalian priest, a faith that permits its priests to marry, when he sought priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>On April 21, 2007, Bergman was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton by John Dougherty, auxiliary bishop.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/story\/Life\/2007091234\/Priest-never-far-from-family\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">source<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ok, I feel like opening up a can of worms\u2026 I am not entirely convinced that married priests are a bad thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18613340-8930405712320558092?l=thecrescat.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Roman Catholic priests may not marry, Bergman was ordained under a Pastoral Provision approved by Pope John Paul II in 1980. 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