{"id":21479,"date":"2022-10-15T09:11:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T16:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21479"},"modified":"2022-10-15T13:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T20:37:34","slug":"a-reference-to-new-ways-ministry-a-u-s-based-group-that-advocates-forgreater-acceptance-of-gays-in-the-catholic-church-has-been-restored-on-thevatican-website-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-reference-to-new-ways-ministry-a-u-s-based-group-that-advocates-forgreater-acceptance-of-gays-in-the-catholic-church-has-been-restored-on-thevatican-website-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican official apologizes for taking down LGBTQ resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<p><strong><em>A reference to New Ways Ministry, a U.S.-based group that advocates for greater acceptance of gays in the Catholic Church, has been restored on the Vatican website.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Vatican official has apologized to a leading Catholic LGBTQ advocacy group for having yanked a reference to it from the Vatican website, saying he realized the move caused pain and that the Catholic Church does indeed want to include gays and hear from them.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican\u2019s General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, which is organizing a two-year consultation of rank-and-file Catholics ahead of a 2023 meeting of bishops at the Vatican, restored the reference to New Ways Ministries on the website over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-news\/vatican-official-apologizes-taking-lgbtq-resource-rcna8559\">www.nbcnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reference to New Ways Ministry, a U.S.-based group that advocates for greater acceptance of gays in the Catholic Church, has been restored on the Vatican website. A Vatican official has apologized to a leading Catholic LGBTQ advocacy group for having yanked a reference to it from the Vatican website, saying he realized the move &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/a-reference-to-new-ways-ministry-a-u-s-based-group-that-advocates-forgreater-acceptance-of-gays-in-the-catholic-church-has-been-restored-on-thevatican-website-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vatican official apologizes for taking down LGBTQ resource<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5Ar","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21479"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21485,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21479\/revisions\/21485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}