{"id":706391,"date":"2010-04-01T04:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=76120"},"modified":"2010-04-01T04:30:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:30:19","slug":"straight-out-of-the-60s-the-1260s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/706391","title":{"rendered":"Straight out of the 60s, the 1260s"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I know as a non-religious type (I’m agnostic because I just don’t care) I would be expected to feel some schadenfreude in the troubles of the Catholic Church. But the stories are too disturbing for that. <\/p>\n

The ultra-conservative clergy of the Church, epitomized by the current Pope have completely brought it on themselves<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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The child abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church widened yesterday as a leading German bishop personally appointed by Pope Benedict was accused of ritually beating and punching children at a church-run home during the late 1970s and early 1980s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And like Church apologist and professional angry person Bill Donohue<\/a>, this same Clergyman, Walter Mixa, said all the Church’s problems were about the "sexual revolution"<\/a> (i.e. divorces and "the gay").<\/p>\n

But actually, as is usually the case, it’s about the power:<\/p>\n

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"The children whose parents never visited the home were the ones who were beaten most," said one former resident<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course they were.<\/p>\n

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I know as a non-religious type (I’m agnostic because I just don’t care) I would be expected to feel some schadenfreude in the troubles of the Catholic Church. But the stories are too disturbing for that. The ultra-conservative clergy of the Church, epitomized by the current Pope have completely brought it on themselves. The child […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XLp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}