{"id":420,"date":"2009-01-15T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/15\/roman-catholic-church-downsizes-in-north-country\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T15:05:00","slug":"roman-catholic-church-downsizes-in-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/01\/15\/roman-catholic-church-downsizes-in-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Catholic church downsizes in North Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The diocese of Albany &#8212; which has parishes in Saratoga, Warren and Washington county &#8212; will unveil its church closure list this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The move is triggered by declining church attendance and a shortage of priests, according to a report today in the Glens Falls Post-Star.  <\/p>\n<p>As many as 40 churches could close, though it&#8217;s unclear how the North Country&#8217;s parishes will be affected.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is an emotional experience for people to have to change their site of worship, but our faith, basically, is not tied to buildings,&#8221; said Rev. Joseph Manerowski of St. Mary&#8217;s church in Glens Falls. &#8220;It&#8217;s the celebration of the Eucharist that counts.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/15\/news\/local\/14312357.txt\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The diocese of Albany &#8212; which has parishes in Saratoga, Warren and Washington county &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}