{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The Ethical Nag","provider_url":"http:\/\/ethicalnag.org","author_name":"Carolyn Thomas","author_url":"https:\/\/ethicalnag.org\/author\/czthomas\/","title":"My farewell letter to the Pope","type":"link","html":"As a former little Catholic girl of the 1950s, I ask the retiring Pope: \"Your Holiness, our whole golden Baby Boomer generation must be quite the disappointment for you. Neighbourhood churches that were once promisingly filled to capacity with young families when I was a child are sadly empty today as so many of us grew up and decided not to raise our own children in a faith so enmeshed in the guilt, fear and punishment that ruled our own childhoods. Well - there's that, plus the way you handled that whole sex abuse scandal thing . . .\"","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/carolynthomas.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/the-spectator-pope.jpg?w=300&fit=440%2C330","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":238}