{"id":27139,"date":"2011-07-07T15:14:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T15:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_episcopal_church_defends_top_bishops_record_in_abuse_case\/"},"modified":"2011-07-07T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T15:14:06","slug":"rns_episcopal_church_defends_top_bishops_record_in_abuse_case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27139","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Episcopal Church defends top bishop&#39;s record in abuse case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A statement issued by the Nevada diocese after the lawsuit was filed raised more questions than it answered, according to victims&#8217; advocates, and said nothing of Jefferts Schori&#8217;s role in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Parishioners deserve the whole truth about why (she) kept silent about Parry&#8217;s crimes and why she ordained him,&#8221; said David Clohessy, national director the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many church officials, not just Catholic bishops, fixate on self-preservation rather than on preventing abuse and healing victims and exposing the truth,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/2011-07\/episcopal-church-defends-top-bishops-record-abuse-case\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statement issued by the Nevada diocese after the lawsuit was filed raised more questions than it answered, according to victims&#8217; advocates, and said nothing of Jefferts Schori&#8217;s role in the matter. &#8220;Parishioners deserve the whole truth about why (she)<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27139\">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":[36,48,39,42,101,66,114,435,154,184,177,373,129,364,112,372,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-presiding-bishop","category-psychology","category-roman-catholic","category-sexuality","category-tec-bishops","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27139","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=27139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}