{"id":7778,"date":"2010-04-17T15:41:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/04\/17\/pope-in-in-credible-act-of-ins\/"},"modified":"2010-04-17T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:41:03","slug":"pope-in-in-credible-act-of-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/17\/pope-in-in-credible-act-of-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope, in incredible act of insensitivity,  mixes up roles of victim and perp"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In his first foreign trip since sex abuse scandals in Europe and the US broke, Pope Benedict has said the Church has been &#8220;wounded by its sins&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8627429.stm\">msnbc<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThe pope did not directly refer to the sex abuse or its cover-up, but it is clear that this is what he meant. And, clearly, the pope has it backwards.  Th church is not wounded. The church is the wound<em>er<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The President of Malta, however, has  it right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMaltese President George Abela made the first direct reference to the abuse crisis in his welcome speech at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Malta, whose population is strongly Catholic, has no state religion, the president pointed out to the Pope.<\/p>\n<p>Then he referred to the criminal case currently before a Maltese court in which three Catholic priests are accused of sexually abusing 10 Maltese men when they were children in a Catholic orphanage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Justice must be seen to be done,&#8221; the president told the Pope. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Take that, Pope!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his first foreign trip since sex abuse scandals in Europe and the US broke, Pope Benedict has said the Church has been &#8220;wounded by its sins&#8221;. msnbc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[524,2486,4482],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-21s","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}