{"id":11039,"date":"2009-02-02T16:49:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_false_solution_pope_weighs_in_on_euthanasia_debate\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T16:49:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:49:56","slug":"ap_false_solution_pope_weighs_in_on_euthanasia_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11039","title":{"rendered":"AP: &#39;False solution&#39;: Pope weighs in on euthanasia debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that euthanasia is a &#8220;false solution&#8221; to suffering, adding his voice to a bitter debate in Italy over the fate of a comatose woman whose father wants to remove her feeding tube.<\/p>\n<p>During his Sunday blessing, Benedict said that love can help confront pain and that &#8220;no tear, from those who suffer and those who are with them, is lost before God.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Benedict didn&#8217;t mention Eluana Englaro by name, but it was clear he was referring to her case, which has made headlines in Italy for months.<\/p>\n<p>Englaro has been in a vegetative state since 1992 after a car accident. She was 20 at the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2009-02-01-pope-euthanasia_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that euthanasia is a &#8220;false solution&#8221; to suffering, adding his voice to a bitter debate in Italy over the fate of a comatose woman whose father wants to remove her feeding tube. During his Sunday<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11039\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,42,438,168,200,104,96,154,184,636,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}