{"id":4438,"date":"2016-08-15T11:15:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T15:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2016-08-15T11:20:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T15:20:51","slug":"your-tax-dollars-at-work-ctd-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4438","title":{"rendered":"Your tax dollars at work, <i>ctd<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?page_id=4217\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to learn why the privileged tax status of churches must end.\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.BobFelton.com\/images\/church_sign.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin:10px;\"><\/a>The Portland diocese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2016\/08\/15\/portland-catholic-diocese-settles-with-six-sexual-abuse-victims-for-1-2-million\/\" target=\"_blank\">settles with some of the abuse victims<\/a> of its priests.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland has settled a lawsuit for $1.2 million with six sexual abuse victims of a former priest.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from Garabedian\u2019s office, the Portland diocese, which oversees all Catholic parishes in Maine, <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">had knowledge of multiple accusations of abuse against Vallely but did not remove him from the ministry. Instead, Vallely was transferred<\/span> to other parishes, including St. Dominic\u2019s in Portland and St. Michael\u2019s in South Berwick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland diocese settles with some of the abuse victims of its priests. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland has settled a lawsuit for $1.2 million with six sexual abuse victims of a former priest. [ &#8230; ] According to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4438\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4439,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}