{"id":50339,"date":"2015-06-17T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/newcastle_anglican_bishop_greg_thompson_apologises_for_churchs_handling_of_\/"},"modified":"2015-06-17T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T15:00:35","slug":"newcastle_anglican_bishop_greg_thompson_apologises_for_churchs_handling_of_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50339","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Anglican Bishop Greg Thompson apologises for church&#39;s handling of child abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle&#8217;s Anglican Bishop has fought back tears while apologising for past church cover-ups and the poor handling of complaints about child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Thompson marked 500 days in the position by saying sorry for &#8220;the terrible harm done [by] a culture of not listening&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are a victim or a survivor of abuse I want to encourage you to come forward,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to assure you that when you do share your story the church will believe you and you will be supported in that process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2015-06-17\/newcastles-anglican-bishop-greg-thompson-sorry-for-church-abuse\/6552688\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle&#8217;s Anglican Bishop has fought back tears while apologising for past church cover-ups and the poor handling of complaints about child sexual abuse. Greg Thompson marked 500 days in the position by saying sorry for &#8220;the terrible harm done [by]<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50339\">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":[36,48,39,50,395,74,204,101,168,114,437,435,184,177,108,112,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50339","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-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50339","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=50339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}