{"id":167963,"date":"2025-08-10T18:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=167963"},"modified":"2025-08-10T18:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T18:16:40","slug":"opinionista-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=167963","title":{"rendered":"OPINIONISTA: Preying on the praying \u2014 when priests become sexual predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The problem persists because religious organisations appear to be reluctant to take appropriate measures to prevent and respond to clergy sexual abuse. This is particularly serious in South Africa&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/opinionista\/2025-07-16-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem persists because religious organisations appear to be reluctant to take appropriate measures to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167963-opinionista-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators.jpg",600,549,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167963-opinionista-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167963-opinionista-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators-300x275.jpg",300,275,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167963-opinionista-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators.jpg",600,549,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167963-opinionista-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators.jpg",600,549,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167963-opinionista-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators.jpg",600,549,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167963-opinionista-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators.jpg",600,549,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167963-opinionista-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators.jpg",600,549,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167963-opinionista-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators.jpg",600,549,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/167963-opinionista-preying-on-the-praying-when-priests-become-sexual-predators-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}