+ Terri Schindler Schiavo + Lest we forget.
One year ago, on March 18, 2005, the court-ordered starvation and dehydration, to death, of Catholic wife Terri Schindler Schiavo began. Terri died on March 31.
Terri's family -- not including her spouse, who sought her death for years and kept a mistress in the meantime -- all said she suffered terribly. Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, who visited Terri in her last days, said the same thing.
The spouse, as you probably know, cremated Terri. And he and the mistress wed this past January. The mistress wore white; I am not making that up.
Terri's family is keeping her memory alive, and helping others who are in the same situation she was, through their Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation (click on this post's title to go to that essential pro-life website).
After Terri's death, Cardinal Mahony wrote, "Our Catholic moral tradition always calls us to give the benefit of the doubt to life, not to death." Then he wrote this shocking sentence, and see if you can count the errors in it: "[We] now need to engage more fully the moral and ethical dimensions of prolonging human life, as well as allowing a person to die peacefully according to God's design."
Here is the pro-life truth: Giving someone food and drink is NOT "prolonging human life." Starving and dehydrating someone to death is NOT "allowing a person to die." Dying by starvation and dehydration is NOT dying "peacefully." Being killed by court-ordered starvation and dehydration is NOT "according to God's design."
We should "Breathe a prayer, shed a tear" for Terri. And what with "futile care" policies and "rationing" looming over all Americans like the sword of Damocles, we should recall that what the poet John Donne wrote, he meant for everyone who would ever read his poems: "Send not for whom the bell tolls -- it tolls for thee."
Terri's family -- not including her spouse, who sought her death for years and kept a mistress in the meantime -- all said she suffered terribly. Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, who visited Terri in her last days, said the same thing.
The spouse, as you probably know, cremated Terri. And he and the mistress wed this past January. The mistress wore white; I am not making that up.
Terri's family is keeping her memory alive, and helping others who are in the same situation she was, through their Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation (click on this post's title to go to that essential pro-life website).
After Terri's death, Cardinal Mahony wrote, "Our Catholic moral tradition always calls us to give the benefit of the doubt to life, not to death." Then he wrote this shocking sentence, and see if you can count the errors in it: "[We] now need to engage more fully the moral and ethical dimensions of prolonging human life, as well as allowing a person to die peacefully according to God's design."
Here is the pro-life truth: Giving someone food and drink is NOT "prolonging human life." Starving and dehydrating someone to death is NOT "allowing a person to die." Dying by starvation and dehydration is NOT dying "peacefully." Being killed by court-ordered starvation and dehydration is NOT "according to God's design."
We should "Breathe a prayer, shed a tear" for Terri. And what with "futile care" policies and "rationing" looming over all Americans like the sword of Damocles, we should recall that what the poet John Donne wrote, he meant for everyone who would ever read his poems: "Send not for whom the bell tolls -- it tolls for thee."
posted by Quintero at 9:41 PM
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Deus, qui inscrutabili providentia passionibus Filii tui vis Ecclasium sociare, praesta fidelibus tuis, in tribulatione propter nomen tuum versantibus, spiritum patientiae et caritatis, ut promissionum tuarum fidi inveniantur testes atque veraces.
Mahony doesn't exactly have a gift for the nuances of moral theology...
The man who continued to seek the courts to help kill his wife married in a "Catholic" church as the 'bride' wore white. Helping a spouse to die invalidates any next marriage according to canon law.
Terri was murdered. There were loving souls who would have cared for her. Money, of course, entered in.
God's justice is perfect however. I hope Terri is in incredible bliss in heaven and I have every reason to believe this to be so.
Ave Maria!
That disgusting episode is still haunting me; the way the so much of the public, media, and, government either didn't seem to care or outright supported the murder still burns me up.
It continues to amaze me the level of disinformation and ignorance about the case, as well. You can see it with the news and pro-Mike internet trolls alike...
Thank you, Quintero, for this post and for so charitibly pointing out the idiocy of Cardinal Mahony's Schiavo statement. LA needs a Cardinal who is Catholic. How long, O Lord?
Dear Eweu,
Thank you for this prayer. In our times of "tribulatione," we sure do need a "spiritum patientiae et caritatis." Amen.
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