{"id":55755,"date":"2018-08-27T02:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/27\/pope-begs-forgiveness-for-abuse-scandals-as-ireland-trip-ends\/"},"modified":"2018-08-27T02:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T00:22:36","slug":"pope-begs-forgiveness-for-abuse-scandals-as-ireland-trip-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=55755","title":{"rendered":"Pope begs forgiveness for abuse scandals as Ireland trip ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pontiff vows to pursue justice for victims in penitential prayer at mass in DublinPope Francis has made a powerful and emotional plea for forgiveness in front of hundreds of thousands of people in Dublin at the closing event of a fraught two-day trip to Ireland which has been dominated by the issue of sexual and institutional abuse.During his 36-hour visit, the pontiff was repeatedly forced to address the decades-long scandal that has had a catastrophic impact on the church\u2019s reputation and moral authority in Ireland and elsewhere. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/aug\/26\/thousands-greet-pope-francis-on-arrival-in-irish-village-of-knock\" target=\"_blank\">Pope begs forgiveness for abuse scandals as Ireland trip ends<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pontiff vows to pursue justice for victims in penitential prayer at mass in DublinPope Francis has made a powerful and emotional plea for forgiveness in front of hundreds of thousands of people in Dublin at the closing event of a fraught two-day trip to Ireland which has been dominated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}