{"id":9768,"date":"2019-10-05T11:42:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T02:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/05\/new-zealand-catholic-bishop-resigns-over-sexual-allegation"},"modified":"2019-10-05T11:42:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T02:42:45","slug":"new-zealand-catholic-bishop-resigns-over-sexual-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9768","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Catholic bishop resigns over sexual allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palmerston North\u2019s Bishop Charles Drennan quits after woman complained of \u2018unacceptable behaviour of a sexual nature\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A New Zealand Catholic bishop has resigned after a young woman accused him of engaging in \u201cunacceptable behaviour of a sexual nature\u201d, the church said.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Charles Drennan, who oversaw the North Island diocese of Palmerston North, tendered his resignation after an independent investigation into his conduct.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/05\/new-zealand-catholic-bishop-resigns-over-sexual-allegation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palmerston North\u2019s Bishop Charles Drennan quits after woman complained of \u2018unacceptable behaviour of a sexual nature\u2019A New Zealand Catholic bishop has resigned after a young woman accused him of engaging in \u201cunacceptable behaviour of a sexual nature\u201d, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,368,370,56,371,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-catholicism","category-christianity","category-new-zealand","category-religion","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9769,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions\/9769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}