{"id":22642,"date":"2010-10-31T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns-pope_says_bishops_must_educate_faithful_to_vote_against_abortion\/"},"modified":"2010-10-31T15:00:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T15:00:32","slug":"cns-pope_says_bishops_must_educate_faithful_to_vote_against_abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22642","title":{"rendered":"CNS&#8211;Pope says bishops must educate faithful to vote against abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishops must guide their faithful to use their vote to oppose efforts to legalize abortion and euthanasia, Pope Benedict XVI told bishops from Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear brother bishops, to defend life we must not fear hostility or unpopularity, and we must refuse any compromise or ambiguity which might conform us to the world&#8217;s way of thinking,&#8221; the pope said Oct. 28 during a meeting with bishops from northeast Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The bishops were making their &#8220;ad limina&#8221; visits to report on the status of their dioceses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1004432.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bishops must guide their faithful to use their vote to oppose efforts to legalize abortion and euthanasia, Pope Benedict XVI told bishops from Brazil. &#8220;Dear brother bishops, to defend life we must not fear hostility or unpopularity, and we must<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22642\">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":[39,40,50,42,357,114,96,154,151,636,108,364,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-brazil","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-south-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642","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=22642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}