{"id":7595,"date":"2010-10-13T00:25:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T06:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7595"},"modified":"2010-10-10T21:53:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T03:53:59","slug":"priest-to-be-first-bishop-in-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/13\/priest-to-be-first-bishop-in-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"Priest to be First Bishop in Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Army Chaplain (LtCol) F. Richard Spencer is a former combat Army officer who has continued to experience combat as a Chaplain, having deployed to Iraq with the US Army.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer has now been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicreview.org\/subpages\/storyarchnew.aspx?action=8685\">appointed a bishop of the Archdiocese for US Military Services<\/a>, the Catholic oversight body for all Catholic Chaplains in the US military.\u00a0 He is transitioning to the Army reserves, but still expects to be the first bishop to enter a warzone when he returns to combat areas during the high-demand holidays.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Spencer brings much experience and motivation to the troops he serves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I stand in the gap as a servant of God,&#8221; he said, &#8220;to try to bring awareness, understanding, compassion and forgiveness in the midst of the sin of war.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicreview.org\/subpages\/storyarchnew.aspx?action=8685\">more about Chaplain Spencer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army Chaplain (LtCol) F. Richard Spencer is a former combat Army officer who has continued to experience combat as a Chaplain, having deployed to Iraq with the US Army. Spencer has now been appointed a bishop of the Archdiocese for US Military Services, the Catholic oversight body for all Catholic Chaplains in the US military.\u00a0 He is transitioning to the [&#8230;]<\/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":[5284,1072,52,2,10],"class_list":["post-7595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-f-richard-spencer","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595","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=7595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}