{"id":485590,"date":"2010-03-29T16:56:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12678"},"modified":"2010-03-29T16:56:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:56:40","slug":"pope-seen-undeterred-by-abuse-scandal-reform-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/485590","title":{"rendered":"Pope seen undeterred by abuse scandal, reform calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12679\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 360px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12679\" title=\"pope palm\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/03\/pope-palm-350x241-custom.jpg\" alt=\"pope palm\" width=\"350\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">  Pope Benedict leads Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican March 28, 2010\/Alessandro Bianchi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The sex abuse  scandals lashing the Vatican have led to calls for an end to priestly  celibacy, a cleanout of the Catholic Church hierarchy and the  resignation of Pope Benedict, but the pope seems unlikely to alter his  approach.<\/p>\n<p>The demands, widely aired in  the media, are so far removed from the way Benedict works that abuse  victims and other critics who raise them seem bound to be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>The sex abuse saga, while shameful enough  to make Benedict issue several apologies to victims, has many aspects  that apparently convince him he can continue to tackle the problem  quietly but firmly, without undue fanfare.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;He  will plod along undeterred,&#8221;<\/em> said Rev. Vincent Twomey, an Irish  theologian who has known the pope for 37 years. <em>&#8220;He takes note of  things, but he&#8217;s not a magician. He works steadily &#8230; I think he&#8217;ll  weather the storm.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62S4I920100329\">Read the full analysis here<\/a> and let us know below what you think.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\"><span style=\"color: #005a84;\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at  RTRFaithWorld<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict leads Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican March 28, 2010\/Alessandro Bianchi The sex abuse scandals lashing the Vatican have led to calls for an end to priestly celibacy, a cleanout of the Catholic Church hierarchy and the resignation of Pope Benedict, but the pope seems unlikely to alter his approach. The demands, widely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485590","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\/4078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}