{"id":48198,"date":"2019-03-25T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2019\/03\/25\/card-ricardo-ezzati-defends-his-administration-over-abuses-before-leaving-diocese\/"},"modified":"2019-03-25T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:47:00","slug":"card-ricardo-ezzati-defends-his-administration-over-abuses-before-leaving-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2019\/03\/25\/card-ricardo-ezzati-defends-his-administration-over-abuses-before-leaving-diocese\/","title":{"rendered":"Card. Ricardo Ezzati defends his administration over abuses before leaving diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 23, the Vatican announced that Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati will no longer be Archbishop of Santiago de Chile.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cardinal is 77-years-old and, as all bishops, he handed in resignation when he turned 75. It is not uncommon for popes to let years pass before they accept a resignation.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ezzati is now being investigated by the justice system in Chile. This is for alleged cover-ups of abusive priests. The cardinal has claimed he is innocent and hopes to be able to defend himself soon. Until a substitute is named, the archdiocese will be managed by the Capuchin Celestino A\u00f3s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Ezzati is not the only cardinal under investigation for possible cover-up of abuses committed by priests.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At present, French Card. Philippe Barbarin, case is still open. He was found guilty, but has filed an appeal to defend his innocence.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 25, 2019. The pope accepted his resignation as Archbishop of Santiago de Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3A4g4zgzXKI","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcardezzatieng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcardezzatiint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48198"}],"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=48198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}