{"id":32988,"date":"2019-02-23T19:31:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32988"},"modified":"2019-02-23T19:31:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:31:24","slug":"top-catholic-cardinal-admits-church-destroyed-documents-on-clergy-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=32988","title":{"rendered":"Top Catholic cardinal admits church destroyed documents on clergy sexual abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Rome (CNN)<\/cite>In a remarkable admission, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx said Saturday that documents that could have contained proof of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church were destroyed or never drawn up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed or not even created,&#8221; said Marx, the archbishop of Munich and president of the German Bishops&#8217; Conference.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The stipulated procedures and processes for the prosecution offenses were deliberately not complied with,&#8221; he added, &#8220;but instead canceled and overridden.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome (CNN)In a remarkable admission, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx said Saturday that documents that could have contained proof of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church were destroyed or never drawn up.&#8221;Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed or not even created,&#8221; said Marx, the archbishop of Munich&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32988","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\/32988","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=32988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}