{"id":23568,"date":"2010-12-22T04:01:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_pope_links_sex_abuse_to_vices\/"},"modified":"2010-12-22T04:01:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T04:01:07","slug":"rns_pope_links_sex_abuse_to_vices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23568","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Pope Links Sex Abuse to Vices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Pope Benedict XVI deplored the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests and linked it to other vices, including child pornography, sexual tourism and drug abuse, which he said were all promoted by an ideology of social moral relativism.<br \/>\nThe pope made his remarks on Monday (Dec. 20), in his annual Christmas address to leaders of the Roman Curia, the Vatican\u2019s central bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back over major events of 2010, Benedict put special emphasis on the clerical sex abuse scandals that broke out in several European and South American countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo a degree we could not have imagined, we came to know of abuse of minors committed by priests who twist the sacrament into its antithesis,\u201d\u009d the pope said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/pope-links-sex-abuse-to-vices-cms-17188\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI deplored the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests and linked it to other vices, including child pornography, sexual tourism and drug abuse, which he said were all promoted by an ideology of social moral relativism. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23568\">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":[48,39,42,101,168,435,154,184,636,364,112,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568","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=23568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}