{"id":185608,"date":"2015-09-24T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=185608"},"modified":"2015-09-24T14:54:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T14:54:12","slug":"us-sex-abuse-victims-blast-popes-remarks-abuse-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/us-sex-abuse-victims-blast-popes-remarks-abuse-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"US sex abuse victims blast Popes remarks on abuse crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p>Pope Francis has acknowledged the widespread sexual abuse committed by Christian priests in the US Catholic Church and warned that such crimes should never be repeated.<\/p>\n<p>In the remarks delivered to Catholic bishops at Saint Matthews Cathedral in Washington on Wednesday, the pope praised\u00a0their response to the sex abuse scandal while failing to mention the words &#8220;sexual abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A group representing victims of priest sexual abuse blasted the pope\u2019s remarks and said his brief remarks were a setback for justice and healing.<\/p>\n<p>Francis, 78, referred to the crisis indirectly, telling\u00a0the bishops he was &#8220;conscious of the courage with which you have faced difficult moments in the recent history of the Church in this country without fear of self-criticism and at the cost of mortification and great sacrifice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What sacrifice?&#8221; said\u00a0Barbara Blaine of Chicago, the president of Survivor&#8217;s Network of Those Abused by Priests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His remarks today confirm what we\u2019ve long said and suspected: this pope, like his predecessors, is doing and will do little if anything to bring real reform to this continuing crisis,&#8221; Blaine said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/09\/24\/430550\/pope-Christian-priests-abusw-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis has acknowledged the widespread sexual abuse committed by Christian priests in the US Catholic Church and warned that such crimes should never be repeated. In the remarks delivered to Catholic bishops at Saint Matthews Cathedral in Washington on Wednesday, the pope praised\u00a0their response to the sex abuse scandal while failing to mention the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}