{"id":111,"date":"2008-09-03T18:33:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T00:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-09-03T18:33:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T00:33:39","slug":"enlightened-european-attitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/enlightened-european-attitudes-111.htm","title":{"rendered":"Enlightened European Attitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Some Americans praise the more sophisticated European attitude to sexuality. The fuss about the Palin pregnancy, or about Clinton\u2019s affairs, would be unimaginable in Europe. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The Catholic Church hierarchy in the United States is heavily influenced by Europe: rising stars among the priesthood were educated at the North American College or at other European seminaries to pick up the attitudes of Romanita. They may also have picked up other European attitudes, which may explain why they let sexually abusive priests continue to abuse children for decades.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">The Spanish newspaper<a title=\"http:\/\/www.abc.es\/20080903\/nacional-sociedad\/detienen-abuso-pederasta-multirreincidente-200809031318.html\" href=\"http:\/\/\"> ABC<\/a> has a story about <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #373737; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: ES; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\" lang=\"ES\">Marcelino Fern\u00e1ndez Arnaiz. Three days after getting out of prison, he was suspected of immediately abusing a six year old girl. It was not his first time in prison: he had previoudly been jailed for sexual abuse in 1980, 1983, 1986, 1990, 1999, 2000, 2002<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>and 2003. Every time he got out, he reoffended. Spain has become, like the Catholic Church, a forgiving community for pederasts where everyone gets a second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth\u2026chance.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-111\" data-postid=\"111\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-111 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Americans praise the more sophisticated European attitude to sexuality. The fuss about the Palin pregnancy, or about Clinton\u2019s affairs, would be unimaginable in Europe. The Catholic Church hierarchy in the United States is heavily influenced by Europe: rising stars among the priesthood were educated at the North American College or at other European seminaries [&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":[28,87],"tags":[119,1120,1135],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexual-abuse","category-spain","tag-marcelino-fernandez-arnaiz","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-spain","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}