{"id":33080,"date":"2019-02-24T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33080"},"modified":"2019-02-24T17:35:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T17:35:16","slug":"pope-calls-abusive-clergy-tools-of-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33080","title":{"rendered":"Pope calls abusive clergy &#8216;tools of Satan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Rome (CNN)<\/cite>Pope Francis, speaking on the final day of a historic summit on clergy sexual abuse, called priests and other Catholics who abuse children &#8220;tools of Satan,&#8221; but offered no concrete steps to address the church&#8217;s massive and morally damning abuse crisis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;The brutality of this worldwide phenomenon becomes all the more grave and scandalous in the church, for it is utterly incompatible with (its) moral authority and ethical credibility,&#8221; the Pope said in a speech in Vatican City on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Consecrated persons,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;chosen by God to guide souls to salvation, let themselves be dominated by their human frailty or sickness and thus become tools of Satan.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rome (CNN)Pope Francis, speaking on the final day of a historic summit on clergy sexual abuse, called priests and other Catholics who abuse children &#8220;tools of Satan,&#8221; but offered no concrete steps to address the church&#8217;s massive and morally damning abuse crisis.&#8221;The brutality of this worldwide phenomenon becomes all the more grave and scandalous in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33080","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\/33080","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=33080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}