{"id":59,"date":"2008-02-18T16:05:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T22:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/cardinal-spreads-misinformation-59.htm"},"modified":"2008-02-18T16:05:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T22:05:33","slug":"cardinal-spreads-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/cardinal-spreads-misinformation-59.htm","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Spreads Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">\u00a0<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" width=\"203\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/40995000\/jpg\/_40995007_brazilpopehummesapok.jpg\" height=\"152\" \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A factoid has taken root in the minds of the Vatican: that less than one percent of Catholic priests have been accused of pedophilia. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/new.php?n=11814\">CNA,<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The prefect for the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Claudio Hummes, said pedophilia is one of the gravest problems of sexual misconduct, but he asserted that the media exaggerated the number of priests involved in such cases, which in reality involved less than 1% of the clergy.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">This is true but irrelevant. The John Jay study established that in the United States at 4.27 % of Catholic diocesan priests and 2.7 % of religious priests have been accused of the abuse of minors. Most of the victims were not indeed pre-pubertal but rather at or over the age of puberty and technically therefore what Hummes says is correct, but the abuse of a 12, 13, or 14 year old is criminal and does enormous harm to the victim.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/p>\n<p>Hummes is sheltering himself from reality by spreading, not exactly lies, but seriously distorted information.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-59\" data-postid=\"59\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-59 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A factoid has taken root in the minds of the Vatican: that less than one percent of Catholic priests have been accused of pedophilia. According to CNA,\u00a0 The prefect for the Congregation for the Clergy, Cardinal Claudio Hummes, said pedophilia is one of the gravest problems of sexual misconduct, but he asserted that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clergy-sex-abuse","category-sexual-abuse","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}