{"id":12860,"date":"2018-08-27T00:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12860"},"modified":"2018-08-27T00:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:22:35","slug":"former-vatican-official-calls-for-popes-resignation-amid-sex-abuse-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12860","title":{"rendered":"Former Vatican official calls for Pope&#8217;s resignation amid sex abuse scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Dublin, Ireland (CNN)<\/cite>A former Vatican ambassador to Washington has called for Pope Francis to resign over his handling of sexual abuse allegations against a prominent cardinal in 2013.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In a statement seen by CNN on Sunday, former Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano said he told the Pope about allegations of sexual abuse against high-profile American Cardinal Theodore McCarrick five years ago, but that the Pontiff did nothing about it.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">McCarrick, 88, who once led the Archdiocese of Washington and was a force in American politics, <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/28\/europe\/cardinal-theodore-mccarrick-resigns-intl\/index.html\">resigned last month<\/a> after a decades-old allegation of sexual abuse of a teenage altar boy. The Pope also ordered McCarrick&#8217;s suspension from public ministry.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin, Ireland (CNN)A former Vatican ambassador to Washington has called for Pope Francis to resign over his handling of sexual abuse allegations against a prominent cardinal in 2013.In a statement seen by CNN on Sunday, former Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano said he told the Pope about allegations of sexual abuse against high-profile American Cardinal Theodore&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12860","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\/12860","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=12860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}