{"id":19144,"date":"2010-04-12T00:27:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T00:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/richard_dawkins_planning_to_have_pope_benedict_arrested_over_crimes_against\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T00:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T00:27:43","slug":"richard_dawkins_planning_to_have_pope_benedict_arrested_over_crimes_against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19144","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dawkins planning to have Pope Benedict arrested over &#39;crimes against humanity&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Dawkins, the atheist campaigner and evolutionist, is planning to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested when he comes to Britain later this year for &#8220;crimes against humanity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, are seeking advice from human rights lawyers as to what legal action can be taken against the pope over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.<\/p>\n<p>It emerged this weekend that in 1985 when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases, the pope signed a letter arguing that the \u201cgood of the universal church\u201d\u009d should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/7578024\/Richard-Dawkins-planning-to-have-Pope-Benedict-arrested-over-crimes-against-humanity.htmlhttp:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/religion\/7578024\/Richard-Dawkins-planning-to-have-Pope-Benedict-arrested-over-crimes-against-humanity.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Dawkins, the atheist campaigner and evolutionist, is planning to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested when he comes to Britain later this year for &#8220;crimes against humanity&#8221;. Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, are seeking advice from human rights<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19144\">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":[39,50,42,425,199,154,155,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-atheism","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144","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=19144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}