{"id":12798,"date":"2018-08-26T09:27:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T09:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12798"},"modified":"2018-08-26T09:27:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T09:27:28","slug":"pope-tells-ireland-he-feels-pain-shame-over-sex-abuse-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12798","title":{"rendered":"Pope tells Ireland he feels &#8216;pain, shame&#8217; over sex abuse scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"57.3280839895\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/europe\/2013\/03\/20133132025195593.html\">Pope Francis<\/a> says he feels shame over the Catholic Church&#8217;s failure to prevent sexual abuse by members of the clergy.<\/p>\n<p>During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/pope-francis-arrives-ireland-landmark-visit-180825095100389.html\">visit to Ireland<\/a>, he referred to abusers as &#8220;repugnant&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He also met with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/pope-meet-child-abuse-survivors-dublin-180822085355325.html\">survivors of clerical abuse<\/a>, as he tries to reinvigorate Catholicism in a country rocked by decades of scandals involving the church.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Neave Barker reports from Dublin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis says he feels shame over the Catholic Church&#8217;s failure to prevent sexual abuse by members of the clergy. During a visit to Ireland, he referred to abusers as &#8220;repugnant&#8221;. He also met with survivors of clerical abuse, as he tries to reinvigorate Catholicism in a country rocked by decades of scandals involving the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798","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=12798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}