{"id":7872,"date":"2004-02-23T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T09:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/this_week_1.html"},"modified":"2004-02-23T09:09:25","modified_gmt":"2004-02-23T09:09:25","slug":"this_week_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/this_week_1.html","title":{"rendered":"This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a busy week&#8230;.There&#8217;s the release of the film, the release of the abuse report, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>well, that minor moment in time called Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the season of Lent.<\/p>\n<p>More on that later.<\/p>\n<p>But in regard to the abuse report, as I mentioned last week, the news stories are already streaming out, statements from dioceses, pre-emptive strikes, attempting to lessen the impact.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t link to all of those stories, so I&#8217;ll just once again remind you that if you&#8217;re following all of that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncrnews.org\/abuse\/\">Abuse Tracker is the place to go<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a busy week&#8230;.There&#8217;s the release of the film, the release of the abuse report, and&#8230; well, that minor moment in time called Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the season of Lent. 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