{"id":33208,"date":"2012-06-24T02:50:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T02:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_priests_conviction_is_a_first_will_more_follow\/"},"modified":"2012-06-24T02:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T02:50:37","slug":"ap_priests_conviction_is_a_first_will_more_follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33208","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Priest&#39;s Conviction Is a First, Will More Follow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[William ] Lynn was far from the only diocesan official in the United States who kept accused priests in parish assignments. Thousands of case files made public through lawsuits and civil investigations revealed that consistent inaction by church officials in the face of abuse claims in earlier years left a trail of victims in dioceses nationwide. About 16,000 claims have been made against Catholic clergy since 1950, according to studies commissioned by the U.S. bishops.<\/p>\n<p>So, why is Lynn the only American church official convicted so far for letting this happen? Here&#8217;s an explanation in question-and-answer format&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/priests-conviction-follow-16635833#.T-ZLsRfx2IQ\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[William ] Lynn was far from the only diocesan official in the United States who kept accused priests in parish assignments. Thousands of case files made public through lawsuits and civil investigations revealed that consistent inaction by church officials in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33208\">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":[48,39,42,101,168,114,435,154,184,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33208","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-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33208","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=33208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}