{"id":7306,"date":"2017-08-16T17:27:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T00:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2018-03-03T21:08:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:08:26","slug":"top-european-leader-blasts-pope-for-telling-catholic-hospitals-not-to-euthanize-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7306","title":{"rendered":"Top European leader blasts Pope for telling Catholic hospitals not to euthanize patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lifesite News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Lisa Bourne<\/p>\n<p>BRUSSELS, Belgium, August 16, 2017 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2013 The former European Council\u00a0president took a shot at papal authority on social media last weekend, inferring that Pope Francis should not have input on whether a Belgian Catholic religious order allows its hospitals to euthanize patients.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The time of <em>\u2018Roma locuta causa finita&#8217; <\/em>has long been over,&#8221; Herman Van Rompuy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HvRpersonal\/status\/896754059365019652\"> tweeted<\/a> in Dutch on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase <em>\u2018Roma locuta causa finite,&#8217;<\/em> is Latin for &#8220;Rome has spoken, the case is closed.&#8221; It originates from an early fifth-century statement by St. Augustine and references the ultimate authority held by the pope.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet was in reply to canon law professor Kurt Marten&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=kurt%20martens&amp;src=typd&amp;lang=en\"> tweet<\/a> publishing the list of trustees for the Belgian Brothers of Charity, showing Van Rompuy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HvRpersonal\/status\/896754059365019652\"> serves on the Board<\/a>. . . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/belgian-politician-criticizes-pope-for-requesting-euthanasia-ban-at-brother?\">Full Text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lifesite News Lisa Bourne BRUSSELS, Belgium, August 16, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) \u2013 The former European Council\u00a0president took a shot at papal authority on social media last weekend, inferring that Pope Francis should not have input on whether a Belgian Catholic religious order allows its hospitals to euthanize patients. &#8220;The time of \u2018Roma locuta causa finita&#8217; has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=7306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top European leader blasts Pope for telling Catholic hospitals not to euthanize patients&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,402,643,162,9,295],"tags":[2533,2534,184,1964,2532],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-7306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-belgium","category-christianity-catholicism","category-euthanasia","category-news","category-religious-freedom","tag-brothers-of-charity","tag-herman-van-rompuy","tag-hospitals","tag-pope-francis","tag-rene-stockman"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Top European leader blasts Pope for telling Catholic hospitals not to euthanize patients - 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