{"id":16318,"date":"2018-09-25T23:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T23:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16318"},"modified":"2018-09-25T23:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T23:23:55","slug":"pope-says-youth-are-scandalized-by-catholic-churchs-abuse-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16318","title":{"rendered":"Pope says youth are &#8216;scandalized&#8217; by Catholic Church&#8217;s abuse crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Pope Francis says young Catholics are &#8220;scandalized&#8221; by the Catholic Church&#8217;s &#8220;monstrous&#8221; clergy sexual abuse crisis but adds that church officials who tried to handle abusive priests many years ago should not be judged by today&#8217;s standards. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Pope&#8217;s comments came Tuesday aboard the papal flight home from the Baltics, when he answered reporters&#8217; questions for about 50 minutes.  <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">On Tuesday, Francis met with young people in Tallinn, Estonia, where he also acknowledged the church&#8217;s abuse scandal and said Catholic leaders need to be &#8220;converted&#8221; to address young people&#8217;s concerns. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Pope Francis says young Catholics are &#8220;scandalized&#8221; by the Catholic Church&#8217;s &#8220;monstrous&#8221; clergy sexual abuse crisis but adds that church officials who tried to handle abusive priests many years ago should not be judged by today&#8217;s standards. The Pope&#8217;s comments came Tuesday aboard the papal flight home from the Baltics, when he answered reporters&#8217; questions&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16318","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\/16318","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=16318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}