{"id":28831,"date":"2011-10-18T15:38:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_kansas_city_catholic_churches_tiptoeing_around_the_latest_scandal\/"},"modified":"2011-10-18T15:38:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T15:38:25","slug":"in_kansas_city_catholic_churches_tiptoeing_around_the_latest_scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28831","title":{"rendered":"In Kansas City Catholic Churches, Tiptoeing Around the Latest Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Justin Hoye was struggling to figure out what, if anything, to say on Sunday to his parishioners at St. Patrick\u2019s Catholic Church about the new turmoil facing the local Roman Catholic diocese.<\/p>\n<p>Days before, news had broken that Bishop Robert Finn and the diocese had been indicted on criminal charges for failing to report a priest found to have pornographic photos of children, including children of his congregants. The priest is accused of having taken more such photographs in the months before church leaders turned them over to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Father Hoye, after reaching out to priests in neighboring parishes \u201d\u201d all of whom expressed the same uncertainty \u201d\u201d decided not to address the matter directly from the pulpit but to offer a homily on man and God that emphasized forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/17\/us\/in-kansas-city-sermons-avoid-mention-of-abuse-scandal.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Justin Hoye was struggling to figure out what, if anything, to say on Sunday to his parishioners at St. Patrick\u2019s Catholic Church about the new turmoil facing the local Roman Catholic diocese. Days before, news had broken that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28831\">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":[48,39,42,114,89,435,154,184,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-law-legal-issues","category-media","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28831","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=28831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}