{"id":1000,"date":"2026-02-24T16:46:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:46:46","slug":"wwii-diaconate-featuring-fr-john-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/2026\/02\/24\/wwii-diaconate-featuring-fr-john-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"WWII Diaconate Featuring Fr. John Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nPart 7 of the diaconate video series with Deacon Andy Saunders and Deacon Ray Duplechain continues from the research library at the National World War II museum in New Orleans. This video highlights Fr. John Washington, a 1935 of Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology, who was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, along with three other chaplains for heroic conduct on the troop ship Dorchester, sunk by German submarines in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see the following from the Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology history webpage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.edu\/theology\/history\/military-chaplain.html\">Fr. John Washington<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deacon Andy and Deacon Ray conclude this episode discussing that deacons are ambassadors for Christ by living out our vocations bringing mercy and compassion to those in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 7 of the diaconate video series with Deacon Andy Saunders and Deacon Ray Duplechain continues from the research library at the National World War II museum in New Orleans. This video highlights Fr. John Washington, a 1935 of Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology, who was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2133,"featured_media":1001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/centerfordiaconalformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}