{"id":19288,"date":"2010-04-20T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap-in_malta_tearful_pope_says_church_will_better_protect_youth\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:20:16","slug":"ap-in_malta_tearful_pope_says_church_will_better_protect_youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19288","title":{"rendered":"AP&#8211;In Malta, tearful pope says church will better protect youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI met Sunday with a group of clerical sex-abuse victims and told them with tears in his eyes that the Catholic Church would seek justice for pedophile priests and implement &#8220;effective measures&#8221; to protect young people from abuse, the Vatican and victims said.<\/p>\n<p>Benedict expressed his &#8220;shame and sorrow&#8221; at the pain the men and their families suffered and prayed with them during the meeting at the Vatican&#8217;s embassy in Malta, the Vatican said.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time Benedict had met with abuse victims since the worldwide clerical abuse scandal engulfed the Vatican earlier this year, and it marked his most personal and forceful statement on the spiraling scandal since a letter to Irish faithful a month ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-04-17-pope-malta_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI met Sunday with a group of clerical sex-abuse victims and told them with tears in his eyes that the Catholic Church would seek justice for pedophile priests and implement &#8220;effective measures&#8221; to protect young people from abuse,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19288\">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":[42,154,636,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19288","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=19288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}