{"id":149346,"date":"2025-10-28T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149346\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:13:10","slug":"galway-priest-warns-people-to-choose-words-carefully-when-offering-condolences-on-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/149346\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway priest warns people to choose words carefully when offering condolences on suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Priest. Stock Image.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/e3666acd-4992-440a-b0ce-8c1be726af1e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Priest. Stock Image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A priest in the west of Ireland has appealed to people to stop posting \u00adcomments such as \u201che is in a better place now\u201d or \u201cshe is at peace with the angels\u201d when sending condolences for those who have died by suicide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking in the Cathedral of the Assumption in Tuam, Co Galway, at the weekend, Fr Mark Quinn (44) revealed in recent months he had experienced his most difficult week of ministry so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Priest. Stock Image. A priest in the west of Ireland has appealed to people to stop posting \u00adcomments&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,2512,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-149346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-catholic-church","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115451265680192974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}