{"id":12864,"date":"2018-08-27T00:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12864"},"modified":"2018-08-27T00:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:22:46","slug":"pope-speaks-to-thousands-at-sunday-mass-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12864","title":{"rendered":"Pope speaks to thousands at Sunday Mass in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Dublin, Ireland (CNN)<\/cite>Hundreds of thousands of people braved wet and windy weather to attend Pope Francis&#8217; Mass at Phoenix Park in Dublin on Sunday, while thousands more gathered in the city center for protests against clerical sexual abuse amid fresh reports the Pontiff ignored allegations stretching back years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We ask forgiveness for the abuses in Ireland,&#8221; said Pope Francis at the Mass, listing a litany of abuses including clerical sex crimes, a lack of compassion and action by church leaders and the separation of single mothers and children in industrial laundries. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;We ask forgiveness for all the times that we, as the church, did not provide survivors of any kind of abuse compassion, to look for justice, and the truth, and concrete actions, so we ask forgiveness,&#8221; Pope Francis said at the Mass, which was expected to attract over 500,000 people and concludes his two-day visit to Ireland. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin, Ireland (CNN)Hundreds of thousands of people braved wet and windy weather to attend Pope Francis&#8217; Mass at Phoenix Park in Dublin on Sunday, while thousands more gathered in the city center for protests against clerical sexual abuse amid fresh reports the Pontiff ignored allegations stretching back years.&#8221;We ask forgiveness for the abuses in Ireland,&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12864","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\/12864","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=12864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}