{"id":8255,"date":"2019-02-25T13:50:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T19:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8255"},"modified":"2019-02-25T13:54:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T19:54:29","slug":"roman-catholic-sex-abuse-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8255","title":{"rendered":"ROMAN CATHOLIC SEX ABUSE SCANDAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There are many reasons I am not a Roman Catholic, but one certainly is the pervasive, historic, and systemic secrecy. Many examples could be offered. For example, the secrecy of the curia coupled with the condescending clericalism I&#8217;ve seen firsthand from priests in spite of what Vatican II says about learning from the laity are just a few.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It stretches credulity to think the Roman Catholic church can properly handle the ongoing (that word is key) sex abuse given the Roman Catholic&#8217;s long and problematic history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And for the record, I taught in Poland and know many dynamic Christians who are in the Roman Catholic church. I just think the overall system is badly broken and lacks the proper theology in doctrine, leadership, and praxis to make things right.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are similar, but not identical reasons that I&#8217;m not Baptist.\u00a0 Though I am sympathetic to Baptist theology, and though the Southern Baptist Convention is not as secretive as the curia, there is much that still gives me concern.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many reasons I am not a Roman Catholic, but one certainly is the pervasive, historic, and systemic secrecy. Many examples could be offered. For example, the secrecy of the curia coupled with the condescending clericalism I&#8217;ve seen firsthand from priests in spite of what Vatican II says about learning from the laity are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,106,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-church","category-controversy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8255"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8260,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions\/8260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}