{"id":22604,"date":"2010-10-29T15:15:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vatican_appeals_for_former_iraqi_leaders_life\/"},"modified":"2010-10-29T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T15:15:38","slug":"vatican_appeals_for_former_iraqi_leaders_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22604","title":{"rendered":"RNS: Vatican Appeals for Former Iraqi Leader\u2019s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican on Tuesday (Oct. 26) called for former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to be spared the death penalty, and suggested it might intervene diplomatically on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe position of the Catholic Church on the death penalty is known,\u201d\u009d said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office. \u201cIt is therefore truly hoped that the sentence against Tariq Aziz will not be carried out, precisely in order to favor reconciliation and the reconstruction of peace and justice in Iraq after the great sufferings undergone there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/vatican-appeals-for-former-iraqi-leader-s-life-cms-16921\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican on Tuesday (Oct. 26) called for former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to be spared the death penalty, and suggested it might intervene diplomatically on his behalf. \u201cThe position of the Catholic Church on the death penalty<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22604\">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":[39,40,50,42,144,557,141,114,203,154,151,636,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-iraq-war","category-law-legal-issues","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22604","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=22604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}