{"id":9558,"date":"2017-08-04T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=9558"},"modified":"2017-08-04T11:43:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:43:39","slug":"ex-bishop-of-phoenix-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/ex-bishop-of-phoenix-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Bishop Of Phoenix Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>From ABC:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/a.abcnews.com\/images\/US\/WireAP_9d49fc83295d4b18925aa87c6116d799_12x5_992.jpg\" alt=\"Thomas OBrien\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>A former bishop who led the Roman Catholic church in metro Phoenix during a worldwide child sexual abuse\u00a0<a class=\"r_lapi\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/topics\/entertainment\/tv\/scandal-shonda-rhimes.htm\">scandal<\/a>\u00a0has been accused of molesting a young boy 35 years ago.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Retired Bishop\u00a0<a class=\"r_lapi\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/topics\/business\/CEOs\/thomas-obrien.htm\">Thomas O&#8217;Brien<\/a>\u00a0is accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing the boy on several occasions at parishes in Phoenix and Goodyear from 1977 to 1982. The Diocese of Phoenix says O&#8217;Brien denies the allegation.\u00a0O&#8217;Brien, now 81, led the diocese in Phoenix as it became embroiled in a global scandal that rocked the Catholic church after allegations surfaced in Boston about pedophile priests going unpunished.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em> <strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/catholic-bishop-phoenix-accused-sex-abuse-boy-49023637\">For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2016\/06\/04\/tropical-rains-possible-tornadoes-threaten-half-us.html?intcmp=hpbt1\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">]<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em> <strong>[Return to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/\">www.spiritdaily.com]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\"><a href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/Michael%20H.%20Brown\/Documents\/My%20Webs\/indexhold.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritdaily.com\/angellily.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times;\"><em>Pray always for purity and love<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-story-p\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: large;\">+++<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"church\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1501847019\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Ex-Bishop Of Phoenix Charged\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ABC: A former bishop who led the Roman Catholic church in metro Phoenix during a worldwide child sexual abuse\u00a0scandal\u00a0has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[999,1111,1112,1113,1110],"class_list":{"0":"post-9558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-church","7":"tag-abuse","8":"tag-bishop","9":"tag-charged","10":"tag-obrien","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}