{"id":16675,"date":"2009-12-14T04:54:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T04:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vatican_says_pope_outraged_by_sex_abuse_in_ireland\/"},"modified":"2009-12-14T04:54:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T04:54:01","slug":"vatican_says_pope_outraged_by_sex_abuse_in_ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16675","title":{"rendered":"Vatican says pope outraged by sex abuse in Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI shares &#8220;the outrage, betrayal and shame&#8221; felt by Irish Catholics over cases of clerical sexual abuse and the way abuse claims were handled by church leaders, and he plans to write a special pastoral letter to the Catholics of Ireland, the Vatican said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter &#8220;will clearly indicate the initiatives that are to be taken in response to the situation,&#8221; said a statement issued by the Vatican Dec. 11. The statement was released after the pope and top Vatican officials spent 90 minutes meeting with Cardinal Sean Brady of Armagh, Northern Ireland, president of the Irish bishops&#8217; conference, and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/0905457.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI shares &#8220;the outrage, betrayal and shame&#8221; felt by Irish Catholics over cases of clerical sexual abuse and the way abuse claims were handled by church leaders, and he plans to write a special pastoral letter to the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16675\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,42,199,325,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ireland","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}