{"id":147066,"date":"2018-01-17T20:55:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=147066"},"modified":"2018-01-17T20:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T01:55:59","slug":"pope-cries-with-victims-of-priest-sexual-abuse-in-chile-asks-for-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/17\/pope-cries-with-victims-of-priest-sexual-abuse-in-chile-asks-for-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope &#8216;cries&#8217; with victims of priest sexual abuse in Chile; asks for forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis, in his visit to Chile, asked for forgiveness over the &#8220;irreparable damage&#8221; inflicted upon child sexual abuse victims by priests in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis said he felt the need to express his \u201cpain and shame&#8221; over the sexual abuse some children were subjected to.<\/p>\n<p>Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said the Pope spoke with the sexual abuse victims in a strictly private meeting where only he and victims were present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was so they could speak of their suffering to Pope Francis, who listened to them, and prayed and cried with them,&#8221; Burke said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 01\/ 17 \/ 18)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Francis, in his visit to Chile, asked for forgiveness over the &#8220;irreparable damage&#8221; inflicted upon child sexual abuse victims &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1093,2300,43735],"class_list":["post-147066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-chile","tag-pope-francis","tag-priest-sexual-abuse","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}