{"id":32449,"date":"2015-08-01T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32449"},"modified":"2015-08-01T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T13:41:05","slug":"last-catholic-priest-at-south-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/last-catholic-priest-at-south-pole\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Catholic priest at South Pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fr-Dan-Doyle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-32450 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fr-Dan-Doyle-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Fr Dan Doyle\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fr-Dan-Doyle-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Fr-Dan-Doyle.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This story is making the rounds: the Catholics at the South Pole won&#8217;t have regular contact with a Catholic priest as they have had in the past. The Catholic Church through her priests has been ministering not only to Catholics but others for a long time at US McMurdo Station on Ross Island &#8211;at the end of the earth. Very few can say they&#8217;ve been to the end of the earth!<\/p>\n<p>A military priest will visit from time-to-time. I happen to think the decision to cut funding is short-sided &#8211;&#8220;Where 2 or 3 are gathered there I am&#8221; comes to mind. Here is the BBC story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-33647390\"><strong>Fr Dan Doyle in the South Pole<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is making the rounds: the Catholics at the South Pole won&#8217;t have regular contact with a Catholic priest as they have had in the past. The Catholic Church through her priests has been ministering not only to Catholics but others for a long time at US McMurdo Station on Ross Island &#8211;at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/last-catholic-priest-at-south-pole\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Last Catholic priest at South Pole<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[31982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32452,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32449\/revisions\/32452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}