{"id":31743,"date":"2014-12-13T08:21:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T12:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31743"},"modified":"2014-12-13T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T12:38:31","slug":"jesus-christ-and-his-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/jesus-christ-and-his-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Christ and his dog, but in heaven?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This medieval image of &#8220;Jesus Christ and his dog&#8221;\u00a0(Wedding at Cana) is a great image given recent silliness about dogs and their supposed souls.<\/p>\n<p>The NY Times published a rather silly article yesterday about the pope saying dogs go to heaven. The below fold article was a grossly inflated piece without the author and the persons commenting on what the Pope reportedly said. Let&#8217;s try it this way: Fido is an honored creature in God&#8217;s Kingdom on earth, but having a soul is untenable. The RNS published &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/12\/12\/sorry-fido-pope-francis-not-say-pets-going-heaven\/\"><strong>Sorry, Fido, Pope Francis did NOT say our pets are going to heaven<\/strong><\/a>,&#8221; debunking the myth. Beware: the media can be very misleading and sometimes dead wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jesus-and-his-dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31744 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jesus-and-his-dog-650x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Jesus and his dog\" width=\"650\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jesus-and-his-dog-650x1024.jpg 650w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jesus-and-his-dog-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Jesus-and-his-dog.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Bible histori\u00e9e toute figur\u00e9e&#8217;, Naples ca. 1350 (Paris, BnF, Fran\u00e7ais 9561, fol. 142v)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This medieval image of &#8220;Jesus Christ and his dog&#8221;\u00a0(Wedding at Cana) is a great image given recent silliness about dogs and their supposed souls. The NY Times published a rather silly article yesterday about the pope saying dogs go to heaven. The below fold article was a grossly inflated piece without the author and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/jesus-christ-and-his-dog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jesus Christ and his dog, but in heaven?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1797],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31743"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31751,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31743\/revisions\/31751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}