{"id":6969,"date":"2004-06-27T16:23:20","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T21:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/06\/27\/eu-slams-vatican\/"},"modified":"2004-06-27T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T21:23:20","slug":"eu-slams-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/06\/eu-slams-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Slams Vatican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The above wasn&#8217;t the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3843797.stm\">headline<\/a><br \/>\nused, but I thought it was fair play since every<br \/>\ntime the Vatican or the Pope makes a statement it seems they are slamming or<br \/>\nattacking<br \/>\nsomeone.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articles\">Mr Nielsen, EU Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian<br \/>\nAid, said: &quot;This<br \/>\nis where bigotry gets into the big discussion.&quot;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">He condemned the Vatican&#8217;s &quot;lack of love for human beings&quot; and &quot;unwillingness<br \/>\nto take their situation seriously&quot;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\"> Mr Nielsen said it forced people into &quot;a terrible choice of abstinence<br \/>\nor lose the blessing of the Church&quot;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The Vatican refused to be interviewed for the programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">But Bishop Rafael Llano Cifuentes, Auxiliary Bishop<br \/>\nof Rio de Janeiro, told the programme &quot;people are being deceived&quot; by<br \/>\nthe message that condoms can prevent HIV infection.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articles\">He said: &quot;The Church is a mother. What mother<br \/>\nwould allow her son to go on a plane if she knew there was a 15% chance it<br \/>\nwould crash?&quot;<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above wasn&#8217;t the headline used, but I thought it was fair play since every time the Vatican or the Pope makes a statement it seems they are slamming or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}