{"id":27418,"date":"2011-07-23T19:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T19:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/irish_times_vatican_relationship_with_ireland_reaches_a_new_low\/"},"modified":"2011-07-23T19:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T19:30:34","slug":"irish_times_vatican_relationship_with_ireland_reaches_a_new_low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27418","title":{"rendered":"(Irish Times) Vatican relationship with Ireland reaches a  new low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In language never before used by an Irish government leader, Enda Kenny yesterday accused the Vatican of downplaying or \u201cmanaging\u201d\u009d the rape and torture of children in order to uphold its own power and reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the D\u00c3\u00a1il in a debate on the Cloyne report, he said it excavated the \u201cdysfunction, disconnection, elitism, the narcissism\u201d\u009d dominating the culture of the Vatican to this day.<\/p>\n<p>The Taoiseach&#8217;s speech was reported around the world with many media organisations praising Mr Kenny for his criticism of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/breaking\/2011\/0721\/breaking1.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In language never before used by an Irish government leader, Enda Kenny yesterday accused the Vatican of downplaying or \u201cmanaging\u201d\u009d the rape and torture of children in order to uphold its own power and reputation. Speaking in the D\u00c3\u00a1il in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27418\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,101,186,579,199,168,144,325,114,154,177,151,636,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-children","category-church-history","category-churchstate-matters","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-ireland","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418","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=27418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}