{"id":465859,"date":"2010-03-24T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=14841"},"modified":"2010-03-24T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:40:12","slug":"irish-sex-scandal-reaches-pope-john-paul-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/465859","title":{"rendered":"Irish Sex Scandal Reaches Pope John Paul II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in Ireland reached Pope John Paul II, if indirectly Wednesday when his former secretary resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Benedict accepted the resignation of Bishop John Magee of Cloyne, Ireland, at the age of 73, two years before the normal retirement age for a bishop.<\/p>\n<p>Magee had been accused of failing to respond adequately to charges of abuse in his diocese, something for which he assumed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Benedict wrote a letter to the Irish faithful last week in which he deplored the bishops&#8217; failure during decades of abuse, expressing his shame and remorse at what happened.<\/p>\n<p>It was clear Magee would resign early after Pope Benedict named another bishop to serve along with him last year.<\/p>\n<p>Magee was a private secretary to three popes: Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in Ireland reached Pope John Paul II, if indirectly Wednesday when his former secretary resigned. Pope Benedict accepted the resignation of Bishop John Magee of Cloyne, Ireland, at the age of 73, two years before the normal retirement age for a bishop. Magee had been accused of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}