{"id":74891,"date":"2026-06-15T05:59:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/key-takeaways-from-the-guardians-inquiry-into-the-churchs-handling-of-a-predatory-priest\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:59:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:59:24","slug":"key-takeaways-from-the-guardians-inquiry-into-the-churchs-handling-of-a-predatory-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/key-takeaways-from-the-guardians-inquiry-into-the-churchs-handling-of-a-predatory-priest\/","title":{"rendered":"Key takeaways from the Guardian\u2019s inquiry into the church\u2019s handling of a predatory priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite reports of Anthony Odiong preying on female congregants, the Catholic church extended his term<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/15\/anthony-odiong-sexual-abuse-catholic-church\">Catholic church had been alerted to Texas priest\u2019s sexual predation for years \u2013 but dawdled before acting<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Catholic clergy leaders wanted to add nearly a decade to a priest\u2019s temporary role as pastor at a suburban New Orleans church despite knowing several women had accused him of sexual misconduct or unwanted advances while ministering to them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/13\/anthony-odiong-sexual-abuse-catholic-church\">the Guardian can report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Anthony Odiong did not make it to the end of an extension that was supposed to last until 2027. A jury in Waco, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/texas\">Texas<\/a>, another community where Odiong worked, convicted him of criminal clergy sexual assault of two women, leading him to a sentence of life imprisonment in early June.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/15\/anthony-odiong-investigation-takeaways\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite reports of Anthony Odiong preying on female congregants, the Catholic church extended his term Catholic church had been alerted to Texas priest\u2019s sexual predation for years \u2013 but dawdled before acting Catholic clergy leaders wanted to add nearly a decade to a priest\u2019s temporary role as pastor at a suburban New Orleans church despite &#8230; <a title=\"Key takeaways from the Guardian\u2019s inquiry into the church\u2019s handling of a predatory priest\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/key-takeaways-from-the-guardians-inquiry-into-the-churchs-handling-of-a-predatory-priest\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Key takeaways from the Guardian\u2019s inquiry into the church\u2019s handling of a predatory priest\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}