{"id":50327,"date":"2015-06-16T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anglican_church_apologizes_for_keeping_british_columbia_priests_sexual_abus\/"},"modified":"2015-06-16T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T15:45:41","slug":"anglican_church_apologizes_for_keeping_british_columbia_priests_sexual_abus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50327","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church apologizes for keeping British Columbia priest&#39;s sexual abuse quiet for 2 decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of Canada expressed regret on Monday for the &#8220;immoral sexual behaviour&#8221; of one of its priests and apologized for not publicly disclosing a confession made two decades ago by the B.C.-based priest, who admitted to sexually abusing parishioners.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Nakayama&#8217;s case was never reported to the police, but his story was the inspiration for The Rain Ascends, a novel by well-known Canadian author Joy Kogawa who is also the priest&#8217;s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>The former priest ministered to the Japanese-Canadian community in B.C. and Alberta. During the Second World War, he followed his Japanese-Canadian parishioners from Vancouver to their internment camps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/anglican-church-of-canada-apologizes-for-keeping-priest-s-sexual-abuse-quiet-1.3114877\">Read it all<\/a> from the CBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church of Canada expressed regret on Monday for the &#8220;immoral sexual behaviour&#8221; of one of its priests and apologized for not publicly disclosing a confession made two decades ago by the B.C.-based priest, who admitted to sexually abusing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50327\">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":[36,48,39,50,388,74,207,101,186,168,114,435,184,108,112,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-children","category-church-history","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50327","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=50327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}