{"id":12664,"date":"2018-08-25T02:25:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12664"},"modified":"2018-08-25T02:25:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:25:05","slug":"priests-abused-them-this-is-what-they-want-the-pope-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12664","title":{"rendered":"Priests abused them. This is what they want the Pope to know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (CNN)<\/cite>Pope Francis is failing the thousands of victims of abusive priests in the US and around the world, survivors told CNN in emotional interviews. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/20\/europe\/pope-francis-letter-sexual-abuse-intl\/index.html\">rare letter of apology and contrition from Francis<\/a>, and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/21\/europe\/pope-ireland-victims-sexual-abuse-intl\/index.html\">promised meeting with Irish victims<\/a> of priestly abuse this weekend has done nothing to ease the ongoing pain of the five people we met in Pennsylvania, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/14\/us\/pennsylvania-catholic-church-grand-jury\/index.html\">a grand jury concluded earlier this month that hundreds of priests raped, molested and abused boys and girls<\/a> for decades.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Pope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/20\/europe\/pope-francis-abuse-full-letter\/index.html\">wrote that the church &#8220;abandoned&#8221; child victims<\/a> while the perpetrators were protected. He called for fellow Catholics to fast and pray, but offered no new directions to stop any current or future abuse.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (CNN)Pope Francis is failing the thousands of victims of abusive priests in the US and around the world, survivors told CNN in emotional interviews. A rare letter of apology and contrition from Francis, and his promised meeting with Irish victims of priestly abuse this weekend has done nothing to ease the ongoing pain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}