{"id":963,"date":"2008-12-29T09:20:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T09:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/12\/the-second-part-of-the.html"},"modified":"2008-12-29T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T09:20:44","slug":"the-second-part-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/12\/the-second-part-of-the.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/29\/us\/29priest.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">The second part of the NYTimes series of the foreign-born RC priest in the USA:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Father Oneko, 46, had never counseled parishioners like those he found here at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church. Many are active-duty or retired military families coping with debt, racial prejudice, multiple deployments to war zones and post-traumatic stress disorder. Nor did he have any idea how to lead the multimillion-dollar fund-raising campaign the parishioners had embarked on, hoping to build an octagonal church with a steeple to replace their red brick parish hall.<br \/>\nCutting his sermons short was, in some ways, the least of Father Oneko\u2019s worries when he arrived here in 2004. He did not understand the African-American experience. He had never dealt with lay people so involved in running their church. And yet, in the end, the families of his church would come to feel an affinity with their gentle new pastor, reaching out to him in his hour of need, just as he had tended to them in theirs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timescolumns.typepad.com\/gledhill\/2008\/12\/father-son-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">And somewhat related: Ruth Gledhill has a piece about a father-and-son set of former Anglican priests who are now both Catholic.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second part of the NYTimes series of the foreign-born RC priest in the USA: Father Oneko, 46, had never counseled parishioners like those he found here at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church. 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