{"id":4174,"date":"2007-01-30T12:54:32","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T17:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/01\/30\/he-needs-to-make-it-25\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T17:54:32","slug":"he-needs-to-make-it-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/01\/he-needs-to-make-it-25\/","title":{"rendered":"He needs to make it 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">VATICAN CITY, JAN. 29, 2007 (Zenit.org).- L&#8217;Osservatore Romano criticized a report published by an Italian weekly in which a journalist pretended he was a penitent in order to test priestly advice in the confessional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The Vatican&#8217;s semiofficial newspaper analyzed the article published in L&#8217;Expresso, calling the latter&#8217;s report an &quot;ignoble &#8216;scoop.&#8217;&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">A reporter for L&#8217;Expresso went to confessionals in 24 churches in Turin, Milan, Rome, Naples and Palermo, to confess invented sins and to compare the priests&#8217; answers on ethical questions such as euthanasia, drugs, prostitution, embezzlement and pederasty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">L&#8217;Osservatore Romano lamented: &quot;To offend the religious sentiment of believers, to deceive the good faith of priests, gravely injuring the inviolable character of pastoral ministry, profaning a sacrament: All this was achieved by the &#8216;courageous&#8217; investigation of a journalist of the well-known weekly.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The newspaper added that it is an offense for &quot;all those who believe in the sacrament of reconciliation.&quot;<br \/>\n[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/aliveandyoung.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/fake-confessions.html\">Alive and Young<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VATICAN CITY, JAN. 29, 2007 (Zenit.org).- L&#8217;Osservatore Romano criticized a report published by an Italian weekly in which a journalist pretended he was a penitent in order to test priestly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}