{"id":12844,"date":"2018-08-26T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T21:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12844"},"modified":"2018-08-26T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T21:22:22","slug":"can-pope-francis-end-abuse-of-children-in-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12844","title":{"rendered":"Can Pope Francis end abuse of children in Catholic Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"82\">\n<p>The Roman Catholic Church is the largest and one of the oldest religious institutions in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s facing some of its biggest scandals and criticism in recent history.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis, who leads the world&#8217;s 1.3 billion Catholics, is under pressure to strongly act against child abuse by priests and the cover-up by church officials that often follows.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has overshadowed his two-day trip to Ireland, the first papal visit to that country in nearly 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>So, how will he address this problem? And what will it mean for the future of the Roman Catholic Church?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Dareen Abughaida<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Lamb &#8211; Rome correspondent for The Tablet Weekly Review<\/p>\n<p>Michael Walsh &#8211; Vatican historian and editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Popes<\/p>\n<p>Donnacha O Beachain &#8211; director of research at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University.<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roman Catholic Church is the largest and one of the oldest religious institutions in the world.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s facing some of its biggest scandals and criticism in recent history. Pope Francis, who leads the world&#8217;s 1.3 billion Catholics, is under pressure to strongly act against child abuse by priests and the cover-up by church&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12844","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\/12844","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=12844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}