{"id":18196,"date":"2018-10-12T17:23:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18196"},"modified":"2018-10-12T17:23:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T17:23:37","slug":"pope-accepts-cardinal-wuerls-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=18196","title":{"rendered":"Pope accepts Cardinal Wuerl&#8217;s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/03\/14\/world\/pope-francis-fast-facts\/index.html\">Pope Francis<\/a> has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the embattled archbishop of Washington, ending weeks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/08\/29\/us\/cardinal-wuerl-catholic-insurgency\/index.html\">mounting speculation<\/a> and rising anger over Wuerl&#8217;s role in two clergy sexual abuse scandals. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But Francis also has asked Wuerl to remain as the archdiocese&#8217;s apostolic administrator &#8212; akin to an interim manager &#8212; until a successor is named. And in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/12\/world\/cardinal-wuerl-resignation-letter\/index.html\">a letter released Friday<\/a>, the pope praised Wuerl for his &#8220;nobility&#8221; in handling the criticism against him, sentiments that angered some survivors of clergy sexual abuse. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Pope wrote that Wuerl has &#8220;sufficient elements to &#8216;justify'&#8221; his actions &#8220;and distinguish between what it means to cover up crimes or not to deal with problems, and to commit some mistakes.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the embattled archbishop of Washington, ending weeks of mounting speculation and rising anger over Wuerl&#8217;s role in two clergy sexual abuse scandals. But Francis also has asked Wuerl to remain as the archdiocese&#8217;s apostolic administrator &#8212; akin to an interim manager &#8212; until a successor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18196","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\/18196","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=18196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}