{"id":17203,"date":"2012-04-12T00:18:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17203"},"modified":"2012-04-12T00:18:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:18:56","slug":"us-military-catholic-church-fight-priest-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/us-military-catholic-church-fight-priest-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military, Catholic Church Fight Priest Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US military continues to face a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/04\/06\/catholic-chaplains-crises\/\">shortage of Catholic priests<\/a>, while the Catholic church itself has a shortage of church leaders:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Catholics make up the largest single religious denomination in the military&#8230;There is one chaplain for every 1,300 Catholic servicemen and servicewomen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One way they&#8217;re attempting to alleviate the strain is with a joint scholarship <!--more-->effort, in which the military archdiocese splits seminary funding with a civilian archdiocese.\u00a0 The military then gets priority until the priest turns 62.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So far the program is working. A couple years ago there were just two seminarians on the path to becoming a Catholic chaplain. Now there are 31.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military continues to face a shortage of Catholic priests, while the Catholic church itself has a shortage of church leaders: Catholics make up the largest single religious denomination in the military&#8230;There is one chaplain for every 1,300 Catholic servicemen and servicewomen. One way they&#8217;re attempting to alleviate the strain is with a joint scholarship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[54,5284,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-17203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-catholic","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}