{"id":398,"date":"2009-01-26T13:27:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T13:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=398"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:16:52","slug":"msgr-william-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Msgr. William Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Died on January 22nd att he age of 69. <\/p>\n<p>Msgr. Smith, professor at Dunwoodie seminary and highly regarded expert in medical ethics. Msgr. was a fine speaker with a dry sense of humor.&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>One of his favorite lines was &quot;before social engineering comes verbal engineering.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/article\/2008901260336\"><font color=\"#800080\">Monsignor, a leading theologian, dies at 69 | lohud.com | The Journal News<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p class=\"graph\" itxtvisited=\"1\">He was one of the leading Catholic voices in the U.S. on medical ethics and was often quoted in the Catholic and secular media on the hot-button issues of the day, such as the Terri Schiavo life-support case, stem-cell research, all aspects of the abortion debate, reproductive technology and cloning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graph\" itxtvisited=\"1\">&quot;He was a top-notch moral theologian, highly regarded in the United States and in Rome,&quot; said Monsignor Joseph Giandurco, pastor of Sacred Heart Church in Suffern, who served with Smith on the seminary faculty for 12 years. &quot;He corresponded with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who is now of course Pope Benedict XVI, on a number of sensitive issues over the years.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Died on January 22nd att he age of 69. Msgr. Smith, professor at Dunwoodie seminary and highly regarded expert in medical ethics. Msgr. was a fine speaker with a dry sense of humor.&#0160;&#0160; One of his favorite lines was &quot;before social engineering comes verbal engineering.&quot; Monsignor, a leading theologian, dies at 69 | lohud.com | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}