{"id":41616,"date":"2013-12-18T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T04:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/belgian_r-_catholic_bishops_criticise_vote_to_allow_children_to_choose_euth\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T04:00:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T04:00:28","slug":"belgian_r-_catholic_bishops_criticise_vote_to_allow_children_to_choose_euth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41616","title":{"rendered":"Belgian R. Catholic bishops criticise vote to allow children to choose euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium\u2019s Catholic bishops have criticised a parliamentary vote paving the way for sick children and dementia patients to choose euthanasia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe voices of religious leaders have plainly not been listened to,\u201d\u009d said Jesuit Father Tommy Scholtes, bishops\u2019 conference spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile everyone wants a gentle death, public opinion appears unaware that euthanasia is a technical act that ends life abruptly. This is why we reject it and believe palliative care offers a better solution,\u201d\u009d he told the Catholic News Service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/news\/2013\/12\/17\/belgian-bishops-criticise-vote-to-allow-children-to-choose-euthanasia\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium\u2019s Catholic bishops have criticised a parliamentary vote paving the way for sick children and dementia patients to choose euthanasia. \u201cThe voices of religious leaders have plainly not been listened to,\u201d\u009d said Jesuit Father Tommy Scholtes, bishops\u2019 conference spokesman. \u201cWhile<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41616\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,175,463,101,438,168,200,104,114,96,154,184,151,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-belgium","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616","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=41616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}