{"id":188757,"date":"2010-08-02T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/02\/they-should-save-their-energies-for-the-pedophile-priests\/"},"modified":"2010-08-02T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T03:24:00","slug":"they-should-save-their-energies-for-the-pedophile-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/08\/02\/they-should-save-their-energies-for-the-pedophile-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"They Should Save Their Energies for the Pedophile Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chilean President has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE66O1KC20100725\">denied a request by the Catholic Church to pardon members of the Pinochet junta currently jailed for murder, rape, kidnapping, etc.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Sunday denied a pardon to people jailed for dictatorship-era crimes, a move likely to ease tensions with the opposition and rights groups over a controversial call for clemency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Chile&#8217;s Catholic Church had asked Pinera to free or lower jail sentences of military officers convicted for human rights violations as well as other criminals in a call for clemency to mark the country&#8217;s upcoming bicentennial celebrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The pardon request infuriated human right groups and the center-left opposition, rekindling memories of General Augusto Pinochet&#8217;s 1973-1990 rule that still divides many Chileans.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking that the Church of Rome issues of forgiveness that are a bit &#8220;closer to home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps they should address these matters before engaging in a full throated defense of the perpetrators of horrors of the Chilean dictatorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chilean President has denied a request by the Catholic Church to pardon members of the Pinochet junta currently jailed for murder, rape, kidnapping, etc.: Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Sunday denied a pardon to people jailed for dictatorship-era crimes, a move likely to ease tensions with the opposition and rights groups over a controversial &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,969,1051,1068,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-latin-america","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188757"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}