{"id":273,"date":"2014-09-30T00:09:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T00:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/?p=273"},"modified":"2014-09-30T00:20:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T00:20:07","slug":"what-did-uk-cardinal-nichols-know-about-double-life-of-bp-conry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"What did UK Cardinal Nichols Know about Double-Life of Bp. Conry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/uk-bishops.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-286 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/66.147.242.160\/~stumbli4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/uk-bishops.jpg?resize=474%2C316\" alt=\"uk bishops\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damian Thompson <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.spectator.co.uk\/damian-thompson\/2014\/09\/kieran-conry-scandal-cardinal-nichols-has-a-crisis-on-his-hands\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Cardinal Nichols this morning faces his\u00a0biggest crisis since he became Archbishop of Westminster in 2009. On Saturday Bishop Kieran Conry \u2013 head of evangelisation for England and Wales \u2013 resigned as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton after (at least) two affairs with women became public.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson feels the bishop went too far in casually revealing his past life to the Daily Mail, while claiming he was still a good bishop:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This is called rubbing the noses of your flock in the sex scandal you\u2019ve just landed on them. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.spectator.co.uk\/damian-thompson\/2014\/09\/bishop-kieran-conry-resigns-after-breaking-vows-catholics-should-be-angry\/\" target=\"_blank\">As I\u00a0blogged on Saturday<\/a>, lots of people \u2013 especially including his priests \u2013 thought he was an awful\u00a0bishop, because he treated anyone who disagreed with him with cold arrogance, because he slagged off Benedict XVI and because they knew, but were too polite to say, that he was a womaniser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Conry also \u2018denied to the Mail that Church leaders had known about his affair\u2019. And this is where Cardinal Nichols, President of the Bishops\u2019 Conference of England and Wales, has questions to answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Thompson reports: Cardinal Nichols this morning faces his\u00a0biggest crisis since he became Archbishop of Westminster in 2009. On Saturday Bishop Kieran Conry \u2013 head of evangelisation for England and Wales \u2013 resigned as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton after (at least) two affairs with women became public. Thompson feels the bishop went too far <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/?p=273\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingblock.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}