{"id":2459,"date":"2008-07-19T21:17:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T02:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/07\/19\/emergency-confessionals\/"},"modified":"2008-07-19T21:17:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T02:17:20","slug":"emergency-confessionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/07\/emergency-confessionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency confessionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">A lot of WYD stories have concentrated on<br \/>\nit as a Catholic Woodstock, here <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/world-youth-day\/overwhelming-demand-for-confessionals\/2008\/07\/19\/1216163225930.html\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">is a different one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Priests have set up emergency<br \/>\nconfessionals as thousands of pilgrims surge on to Randwick Racecourse<br \/>\n&#8211; sleeping out in a vigil ahead of tomorrow&#8217;s final mass.<\/p>\n<p>Priests have taken plastic chairs and are sitting on the ground to take<br \/>\nthe &#8220;overwhelming&#8221; number of young people looking to confess their sins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s too much. I came at one o&#8217;clock and there were so many people<br \/>\nhere I thought I had to help the other priests,&#8221; said Father Bernard<br \/>\nSperinger, a priest from Austria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sisters had planned (for confession) but they were overwhelmed by<br \/>\nso many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Also not covered are the catechetical session that go on during the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of WYD stories have concentrated on it as a Catholic Woodstock, here is a different one. Priests have set up emergency confessionals as thousands of pilgrims surge on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}