Posted on 04/01/2005 6:49:38 PM PST by Fred
Holy See Grieved by Terri Schiavo's Death Reaction of Vatican Spokesman and Cardinal
VATICAN CITY, APRIL 1, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The Holy See officially expressed its sadness over the death of the brain-damaged woman in Florida who died of starvation after her husband had her feeding tube removed.
On Thursday afternoon, Joaquín Navarro Valls, director of the Vatican press office, said that the circumstances surrounding Terri Schiavos death have "rightly upset consciences."
"A life was interrupted. Death was arbitrarily anticipated, because feeding a person can never be considered as drastic therapy," said the Vatican spokesman in a statement.
"There is no doubt that there can be no exceptions to the principle of the sacredness of life, from conception to its natural end. In addition to being a principle of Christian ethics, this has also been a principle of human civilization," added the text.
"It is to be hoped that, because of this dramatic experience, a greater awareness of human dignity will mature in public opinion and that this will lead to greater defense of life, even on a legal level," concluded Navarro Valls.
Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, described Terri Schiavo's death as a homicide, in face of which one cannot be indifferent without becoming an accomplice."
Cardinal Martino added that it was "an unjust sentence to death of an innocent, by one of the most inhuman and cruel forms, hunger and thirst." ZE05040104
The Cardinal is RIGHT it was a HOMICIDE...Absolutley. With many accomplices.
The Cardinal is RIGHT it was a HOMICIDE...Absolutley. With many accomplices.
Oh, well, a double post.
Oh, well, a double post.
The disappointment and shock of it has absolutely KILLED our PAPA! That's right, they've killed the POPE too.
Yet Felos maintains that witholding nutrients and liquids isn't starvation.
If you do that again you'll have youre triple-double for the season.
Felos must demonstrate the concept personally. I'd pay good money to watch.
Oh, well, hear him talk! I'd like to see him try it for two or three weeks, then come back and preach to us all about how easy it is, the felonious death-monger.
The Holy See had the opportunity a few weeks ago to name her a Vatican envoy. She would have had diplomatic immunity, and they couldn't do her harm.
LOL! The second double post was meant to be funny!
" ........a homicide, in face of which one cannot be indifferent without becoming an accomplice."
True words there. I have been so shocked, and shaken to my core, that MY country was capable of doing this terrible thing. But what has disillusioned me, more even than the fact that my country murdered this innocent woman, is the INDIFFERENCE of so many as to what was happening. So many people could not be troubled to take a few minutes to CARE.
pattyjo
I agree, she was murdered. The Catholic Church gets it right this time...
My favorite observation was that when Teri was dying, she was surrounded by flowers that were well watered. She is in a room full of flowers getting water, and dying because her own family is being prevented from giving her any water.
When I hear the arguments of Felos and his Ilk, the word sophistry comes to mind.
Ping
Yah, well duhhhh. Yer right, it wuz a humicide!
NOT.
Agreed. From beginning to end, there isn't a thing about this case that wasn't troubling.
Can we really call it homicide if those were her wishes? I cannot decide how I feel about this. What if she really did not want to live that way? Shouldn't she have been allowed to die if she wanted to? Wouldn't you want people to honor your wishes? The whole situation greatly saddens me, but will we ever know the real story?
Congress, are you people reading the words of the Cardinal. Even though none of you on the Hill would constructively intervene to save Terri's life, the least you can do is prosecute her killers, which among others include Greer, Felos and the hit man for hire, ex-'husband'.
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