{"id":47997,"date":"2019-05-17T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2019\/05\/17\/vatican-court-acquits-former-vatican-official-of-sexual-harassment-allegations\/"},"modified":"2019-05-17T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T14:15:00","slug":"vatican-court-acquits-former-vatican-official-of-sexual-harassment-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2019\/05\/17\/vatican-court-acquits-former-vatican-official-of-sexual-harassment-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Court acquits former Vatican official of sexual harassment allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican Court has acquitted Fr. Hermann Geissler from sexual allegations made against him, after conducting a trial. He is a former Vatican official and member of the religious community Familia spiritualis Opus (FSO).<\/p>\n<p>It comes after he had originally been accused in 2014 by a woman, from the same community, of sexual harassment during confession years beforehand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary investigation had been conducted by the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.<\/p>\n<p>In a Vatican statement released in January 2019, Fr. Hermann Geissler had submitted his resignation from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in order to lessen the scandal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, in the statement, the priest also maintained his innocence saying \u201cthe accusation made against him is untrue\u201d and that \u201cthe canonical process already initiated continue.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 17, 2019. It comes after he had been accused in 2014 by a woman of sexual harassment during confession years beforehand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DRAG0t1eKkM","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bhermanneng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bhermannint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}