{"id":32024,"date":"2019-02-06T07:22:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32024"},"modified":"2019-02-06T07:22:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:22:39","slug":"the-pope-for-the-first-time-calls-the-sexual-abuse-of-nuns-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32024","title":{"rendered":"The Pope, for the first time, calls the sexual abuse of nuns &#8216;a problem&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Aboard the papal plane (CNN)<\/cite>For the first time, Pope Francis has acknowledged the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops as a &#8220;problem&#8221; in the Catholic Church, saying that &#8220;we&#8217;ve been working on this for some time.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Pope&#8217;s comments, which came during a press conference aboard the papal plane on a return flight to Rome from the United Arab Emirates, come as the Catholic Church is dealing with sexual abuse scandals on several continents. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;There have been priests and also bishops who have done that,&#8221; the Pope said of sexually abusing nuns. &#8220;And I believe that it may still be being done. It&#8217;s not a thing that from the moment in which you realize it, it&#8217;s over. The thing goes forward like this. We&#8217;ve been working on this for a long time.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aboard the papal plane (CNN)For the first time, Pope Francis has acknowledged the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops as a &#8220;problem&#8221; in the Catholic Church, saying that &#8220;we&#8217;ve been working on this for some time.&#8221; The Pope&#8217;s comments, which came during a press conference aboard the papal plane on a return flight&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32024","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\/32024","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=32024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}