{"id":25503,"date":"2010-04-18T21:15:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/the-pope-meets-8-victims-of-se\/"},"modified":"2010-04-18T21:15:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T01:15:41","slug":"the-pope-meets-8-victims-of-se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/the-pope-meets-8-victims-of-se\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pope meets 8 victims of sexual abuse in Malta: a profound experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prominent Italian newspaper, <i>Corriere della Sera<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corriere.it\/cronache\/10_aprile_18\/papa-malta-messa_4d4e56fe-4ad9-11df-b267-00144f02aabe.shtml\">published a beautiful quote<\/a> of Lawrence Grech, a victim of sexual abuse, who met with Pope Benedict during his pastoral visit to Malta Saturday and Sunday and had a profound experience. Mr. Grech said that he felt liberated, that a great stone lifted after speaking with Benedict. Grech went on to say that after this encounter he was a more convinced Catholic and that this was &#8220;the greatest gift after the birth of my daughter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Italy&#8217;s other news agency, La Stampa, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lastampa.it\/_web\/CMSTP\/tmplrubriche\/giornalisti\/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=196&amp;ID_articolo=769&amp;ID_sezione=396&amp;sezione=\">reported the story<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Will this quote show up in the American press?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prominent Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, published a beautiful quote of Lawrence Grech, a victim of sexual abuse, who met with Pope Benedict during his pastoral visit to Malta Saturday and Sunday and had a profound experience. Mr. Grech said that he felt liberated, that a great stone lifted after speaking with Benedict. Grech &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/the-pope-meets-8-victims-of-se\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Pope meets 8 victims of sexual abuse in Malta: a profound experience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2398,2399,32081,2338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}