{"id":26470,"date":"2018-12-21T23:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T23:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26470"},"modified":"2018-12-21T23:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T23:22:29","slug":"pope-francis-tells-clerics-who-abuse-minors-to-turn-themselves-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26470","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis tells clerics who abuse minors to turn themselves in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Rome (CNN)<\/cite>Pope Francis has told those who abuse minors to hand themselves in to civil justice authorities and &#8220;prepare for divine justice,&#8221; in his strongest words to date on the sex abuse crisis roiling the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In his annual speech to the Vatican&#8217;s Curia on Friday morning, the Pope also thanked the media for exposing the sex abuse crisis and encouraged survivors to speak out.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I myself would like to give heartfelt thanks to those media professionals who were honest and objective and sought to unmask these predators and to make their victims&#8217; voices heard,&#8221; the Pope said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome (CNN)Pope Francis has told those who abuse minors to hand themselves in to civil justice authorities and &#8220;prepare for divine justice,&#8221; in his strongest words to date on the sex abuse crisis roiling the Roman Catholic Church.In his annual speech to the Vatican&#8217;s Curia on Friday morning, the Pope also thanked the media for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26470","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\/26470","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=26470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}