{"id":2453,"date":"2007-10-14T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vatican_bars_gay_priest_for_anonymous_tv_confession\/"},"modified":"2007-10-14T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T23:10:00","slug":"vatican_bars_gay_priest_for_anonymous_tv_confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2453","title":{"rendered":"Vatican bars gay priest for &#34;anonymous&#34; TV confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican has suspended a senior priest in the Holy See who acknowledged homosexual relations in a supposedly anonymous television interview, but was identified by superiors from background shots of his office.<\/p>\n<p>In a major embarrassment for the Roman Catholic Church&#8217;s hierarchy, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Saturday the monsignor, whose name was not released, was suspended from duty pending an internal investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Local media identified him as a senior figure in a Vatican department which oversees matters relating to priesthood and said he also made regular appearances on Vatican television.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idINIndia-29980120071013\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican has suspended a senior priest in the Holy See who acknowledged homosexual relations in a supposedly anonymous television interview, but was identified by superiors from background shots of his office. In a major embarrassment for the Roman Catholic<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2453\">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":[42,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","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=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}