{"id":21814,"date":"2010-09-14T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T16:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vatican_not_sweating_uk_protests\/"},"modified":"2010-09-14T16:20:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T16:20:58","slug":"vatican_not_sweating_uk_protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21814","title":{"rendered":"(Zenit) Vatican Not Sweating UK Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican isn&#8217;t worried about the possibility of protests during Benedict XVI&#8217;s visit to the United Kingdom next week, says a spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi met today with journalists who asked about hostility toward the Sept. 16-19 Papal visit. A campaign called Protest the Pope is organizing a march through London on Sept. 18, which will voice concerns over the Church&#8217;s handling of the sexual abuse crisis, among other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Father Lombardi said that with regard to the protests, &#8220;there is nothing on our part over which we must be worried,&#8221; and that such events are part &#8220;of the normal climate of a pluralist society, such as the British, in which there is great liberty of expression, and in which Catholics are a minority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-30317?l=english\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican isn&#8217;t worried about the possibility of protests during Benedict XVI&#8217;s visit to the United Kingdom next week, says a spokesman. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi met today with journalists who asked about hostility toward the Sept. 16-19 Papal visit.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21814\">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":[39,50,42,199,154,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21814","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=21814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}