{"id":39515,"date":"2012-11-01T00:39:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T07:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=39515"},"modified":"2014-12-30T11:01:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:01:58","slug":"pope-totally-goes-off-gop-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2012\/11\/pope-totally-goes-off-gop-script.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Totally Goes Off GOP Script"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Pope Calls Health Care An \u2018Inalienable Right,\u2019 Urges World Governments To Provide Universal Coverage<\/a><\/p>\n

At an international papal conference on health care yesterday at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI and other Catholic church leaders said it is the \u201cmoral responsibility<\/a> of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay.\u201d Saying access to adequate medical care is one of the \u201cinalienable rights\u201d of man, the pope said, \u201cJustice in health care should be a priority of governments<\/a> and international institutions\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

1) Damage control, 2) denunciations, 3) attempts to exegete this to mean the exact\u00a0opposite of what the\u00a0Pope said, 4) explanations that it can all be safely ignored since Think Progress is reporting it, 5) \u201csmoke of Satan in the Vatican\u201d conspiracy chatter, and 6) various other strategies for ignoring the Pope\u00a0in 3, 2, 1\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pope Calls Health Care An \u2018Inalienable Right,\u2019 Urges World Governments To Provide Universal Coverage At an international papal conference on health care yesterday at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI and other Catholic church leaders said it is the \u201cmoral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-39515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-health-care-is-an-inalienable-right"],"yoast_head":"\nPope Totally Goes Off GOP Script<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pope Calls Health Care An \u2018Inalienable Right,\u2019 Urges World Governments To Provide Universal Coverage At an international papal conference on health 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