{"id":48481,"date":"2015-02-20T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_bishops_put_high_priority_on_fighting_moves_to_allow_assisted_suicide\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T17:00:38","slug":"cns_bishops_put_high_priority_on_fighting_moves_to_allow_assisted_suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48481","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) R. Catholic Bishops put high priority on fighting moves to allow assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As New York lawmakers began to consider a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, the New York State Catholic Conference launched a new website &#8220;to offer Catholics moral clarity and guidance on the church&#8217;s teachings regarding end-of-life decision-making.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Talking about death and dying can be difficult and uncomfortable, yet perhaps no conversations are more profound or necessary for all of us,&#8221; says the &#8220;About&#8221; section of the site. &#8220;The fact is that most of us will face challenging decisions regarding treatment and care at the end of life, either for ourselves or our family members.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Developed with a grant from Our Sunday Visitor, the site provides links to resources, church teaching, advance directives and a variety of Catholic sources all across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic church teaches that physician-assisted suicide is immoral and unethical.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncronline.org\/news\/politics\/bishops-put-high-priority-fighting-moves-allow-assisted-suicide\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As New York lawmakers began to consider a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, the New York State Catholic Conference launched a new website &#8220;to offer Catholics moral clarity and guidance on the church&#8217;s teachings regarding end-of-life decision-making.&#8221; &#8220;Talking about death<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48481\">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":[48,39,40,42,103,175,438,168,104,114,96,154,184,177,151,108,364,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-aging-the-elderly","category-anthropology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48481","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=48481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}