{"id":16,"date":"2010-03-17T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/03\/pope-benedict-irelands-cardinal-address-sex-abuse-scandal.html"},"modified":"2010-03-17T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:00:23","slug":"pope-benedict-irelands-cardinal-address-sex-abuse-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/03\/pope-benedict-irelands-cardinal-address-sex-abuse-scandal.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict, Irish cardinal, address sex abuse scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess I spoke too soon about today being a&nbsp;happier&nbsp;news day for Irish Catholics. Then again, St. Patrick was&nbsp;celebrated for driving the snakes out of Ireland, so perhaps it&#8217;s fitting&nbsp;to report on the church&#8217;s need to do likewise with the snakes in its own midst today. (Too much of a stretch?)<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Sean Brady, the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, has just admitted that the <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/europe\/03\/17\/catholic.ireland.abuse\/\">church&#8217;s response to the clergy abuse of children&nbsp;has been &#8220;horribly inadequate,&#8221; and apologized <\/a>for his role in the investigation of an abusive priest in the 1970s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-03-17-pope-irish-catholics_N.htm?csp=34&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+Religion-TopStories+(News+-+Religion+-+Top+Stories)&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Pope Benedict is asking Irish Catholics to read his upcoming pastoral letter <\/a>on their sexual abuse crisis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1001123.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">&#8220;with an open heart and a spirit of faith.&#8221; <\/a>He&nbsp;plans to sign it on Friday, St. Joseph&#8217;s Day &#8212; possibly hoping that&nbsp;his own patron saint will bring him some luck in this situation?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span><br \/><\/span><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span>*<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\"><span>Click here to<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><strong><span>subscribe to Belief Beat<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><b><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/a><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span>and<\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\"><span>click here to<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><strong><span>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/span><\/strong><\/a><span class=\"apple-style-span\"><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess I spoke too soon about today being a&nbsp;happier&nbsp;news day for Irish Catholics. Then again, St. Patrick was&nbsp;celebrated for driving the snakes out of Ireland, so perhaps it&#8217;s fitting&nbsp;to report on the church&#8217;s need to do likewise with the snakes in its own midst today. (Too much of a stretch?) Cardinal Sean Brady, the head&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pope Benedict, Irish cardinal, address sex abuse scandal - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/03\/pope-benedict-irelands-cardinal-address-sex-abuse-scandal.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope Benedict, Irish cardinal, address sex abuse scandal - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Guess I spoke too soon about today being a&nbsp;happier&nbsp;news day for Irish Catholics. 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