{"id":880,"date":"2011-07-19T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/?p=880"},"modified":"2011-07-19T13:18:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T17:18:12","slug":"philadelphia-city-of-brotherly-love-hateful-abuse-gets-new-archbishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/07\/philadelphia-city-of-brotherly-love-hateful-abuse-gets-new-archbishop.html","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love &amp; Hateful Abuse, Gets New Archbishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated at 1 p.m. EST to add NCR interview with Archbishop Chaput.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a tough year for the Catholic Church in Philadelphia, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/catholic-clergy-abuse-scandal-rocks-philadelphia.html\">where the pesky clergy abuse revelations just won&#8217;t go away<\/a>. But now\u00a0Cardinal Justin Rigali &#8212; due to reaching age 75 and\/or the way the scandal has festered &#8212; is retiring, and\u00a0Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver is heading to the City of Brotherly Love to turn things around:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/07\/19\/pope-accepts-resignation-of-philadelphia-archbishop-amid-sex-scandal\/\">Pope accepts resignation of Philadelphia archbishop amid sex scandal<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/archbishop-chaput-says-he-will-bring-the-gospel-without-compromise-to-philly\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+catholicnewsagency%2Fdailynews+%28CNA+Daily+News%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Archbishop Chaput urges confidence in Gospel, as he goes to Philly<\/a> (Catholic News Agency)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/news\/people\/exclusive-interview-archbishop-charles-chaput\">Exclusive interview with Archbishop Charles Chaput<\/a> (National Catholic Reporter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wonder if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/nicole-neroulias\/denver-archbishop-chaput-_b_738516.html\">Chaput will talk to the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0again\u00a0now? Perhaps he won&#8217;t be so defensive as the new sheriff in town&#8230; or maybe he&#8217;ll be <em>more<\/em> defensive.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to\u00a0<strong>subscribe to Belief Beat\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to\u00a0<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated at 1 p.m. EST to add NCR interview with Archbishop Chaput. It&#8217;s been a tough year for the Catholic Church in Philadelphia, where the pesky clergy abuse revelations just won&#8217;t go away. But now\u00a0Cardinal Justin Rigali &#8212; due to reaching age 75 and\/or the way the scandal has festered &#8212; is retiring, and\u00a0Archbishop Charles&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":[344,345,346,347,205,14,103,348,102],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-archbishop-chaput","tag-archbishop-charles-j-chaput","tag-cardinal-justin-rigali","tag-cardinal-rigali","tag-catholic-church","tag-christianity","tag-clergy-abuse","tag-philadelphia-scandal","tag-pope-benedict"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love &amp; Hateful Abuse, Gets New Archbishop - 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\/2011\/07\/philadelphia-city-of-brotherly-love-hateful-abuse-gets-new-archbishop.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love &amp; Hateful Abuse, Gets New Archbishop - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Updated at 1 p.m. EST to add NCR interview with Archbishop Chaput. 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