{"id":4654,"date":"2005-07-30T23:55:21","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T23:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/im-sorry-but-this-is-pathetic.html"},"modified":"2005-07-30T23:55:21","modified_gmt":"2005-07-30T23:55:21","slug":"im-sorry-but-this-is-pathetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/07\/im-sorry-but-this-is-pathetic.html","title":{"rendered":"I’m sorry, but this is pathetic"},"content":{"rendered":"

84-year old retired priest arrested for soliciting a prostitute…<\/a><\/p>\n

…it’s the fourth time since 1998.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> I suppose, 29 comments into this, I should clarify what I <\/em>mean by "pathetic." I mean it’s pathetic that this elderly man is so ill-cared for by his brother priests to whom he has been bound for probably 6 decades that this can even happen – that if he is suffering from dementia, he’s allowed to wander and get into these situations, or if he isn’t, that evidently, care isn’t being taken to give him a life and environment that’s caring, supportive and in which this thing would never have happened again after time #1.  <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

84-year old retired priest arrested for soliciting a prostitute… …it’s the fourth time since 1998. Update: I suppose, 29 comments into this, I should clarify what I mean by "pathetic." 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