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Terri Schiavo's parents on Wednesday thanked Pope Benedict for Vatican backing in their failed campaign to keep their brain-damaged daughter alive and gave him a framed picture of her."I can't even tell you how I felt," Terri's mother, Mary, told Reuters in an interview with other family members in St. Peter's Square just minutes after meeting the Pope."When I gave it to him he said: 'I know, I know about Terri' to me. I couldn't imagine the Holy Father saying to me 'I know, I know about Terri'. It was the most I could have ever, ever hoped for," she...

Rarely has convenience been held so dear or life so cheap. Rarely has the nation been held in such thrall over tragedy. But we haven't seen anything yet. Before it ends, Terri Schiavo will seem the footnote to this saga of judges enthroned, Congress challenged, death embraced.

Yesterday on the radio, Bill O'Reilly said that if Michael Schiavo doesn't allow the Schindler family to have a funeral for Terri WITH HER BODY PRESENT, then O'Reilly will see Michael as a "villain." This is a little late for O'Reilly, who's been walking a middle line throughout the Schiavo ordeal. In my opinion, he certainly wasn't "looking out for" this woman as the fight was on to keep her from being deliberately starved to death. And he's also said that Greer passes the smell test. I don't get O'Reilly - - - sometimes he can recognize corruption and evil,...

CBS is rushing a Terri Schiavo TV movie into production so that it can air the biopic during the May ratings sweeps. There is no word on whether the network has secured the cooperation of either the Schindler family, Terri's parents and siblings, or Michael Schiavo, her estranged husband. There are reports Michael Schiavo is entertaining offers of book, movie and TV deals for Terri's story. Industry sources say Schiavo is likely to be offered up to $2 million for a book deal and up to $2 million for a movie or TV deal. CBS' Terri story reportedly will feature...

I address this to real Catholic Freepers, and I am happy to greet friendly Anglicans and Orthodox Freepers. Terri Schindler's murder because of the decree of the State and the inaction of the State means our sister in Christ will likely die a martyr because of the Culture of Death.If and when this premeditated murder is completed, I would like us all to rally faithful Catholics everywhere to call upon the Church at every level to acclaim Terri as "Theresa Marie Schindler, Martyr for the Gospel of Life" If in time, Holy Mother Church will remember the ancient custom and...

Diana May of Modesto (California) cried when she heard that Terri Schiavo had died. She never knew Schiavo. Like most people, she watched as a controversy unfolded over whether the 41-year-old woman should live or die. "I've tried not to watch too much of this," May said. "It really hit home." Like Schiavo, May's husband is in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state. Modesto police Sgt. Steve May, now 48, went into a coma after a fleeing suspect crashed a stolen pickup into his squad car in the airport neighborhood on July 29, 2002. ....snip.... A few weeks after...

           I have great respect for Ambassador Keyes, and for his acumen, but his article on World Net Daily suggesting that if Governor Bush does not call out the State Police, or I assume, also the National Guard to save Terri’s life, he is derelict in his duty. Ambassador Keys owes us a better argument than the practically off the cuff argument in his article. Ambassador Keyes is not alone in his harsh criticism of Governor Bush, but I am not with them in this.      When Governor Bush moved the legislature of Florida to pass Terri’s Law it did so...

America is now a nation ruled by the amoral and fallible will of men. They are called lawyers. The warning has been coming for decades. The current case involving the litigated and legally mandated death sentence of Terri Schiavo has now confirmed our current fate. This should be no surprise. For at least fifty years we have been indoctrinated with the specious argument that a traditional, rational and common moral code of conduct is bourgeois and unsophisticated. This journey of cultural madness has culminated in massive societal confusion regarding whether right and wrong behavior even exists. This is unless a...

Normally I add a paragraph of two of explanation of my subject matter for the benefit of any readers that may not be familiar with the subject that I am addressing. In this case, if you have not heard of the Terri Schiavo case, I suggest you quit now and read something else. Maybe no other case in recent history, including the O. J. Simpson and Scott Peterson cases, has generated as much controversy as the Terri Schiavo case. I can't begin to count how many articles and opinions and I've read and heard in the past couple of weeks....

Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The judge in the Terri Schaivo case who reissued an order Friday that prompted Terri's feeding tube to be removed for a third time has withdrawn his membership in a local Baptist Church. 'Judge' Greer, William Rice, the pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Clearwater, Florida, confirmed the news to the Baptist Press news agency on Friday. David Gibbs, lead council for Bob and Mary Schindler, the parents of brain-damaged daughter Terry Schiavo, speaks to the media March 18th, 2005 about Terri's condition outside the Woodside Hospice where Terri lives. Rice said he received a letter...

Something else died yesterday morning. No, don't mean Terri Schiavo, that "vegetable" the portside media has been telling us has been deceased all along. What died was trust. To say that it had been at death's door for many years is a truism. But yesterday the trust plighted by men and women through the ceremony, sacrament to some, of marriage, shuffled off a remainder of its mortal coil. You've heard the knell for days, on the subways, the ferryboats, and in the polls. "Well, after all, he was a young man. Why shouldn't he find a life for himself, another...

Why did Terri Schiavo die? The answer seems easy enough. The actual answer is because her "husband" requested a court to let him starve her, and the court gave him permission to. It is the first example of judicially granted, state-sanctioned homicide in American history. But Michael Schiavo and Judge George Greer were not alone in their willingness to put personal agendas above an innocent woman's constitutional rights to life and liberty. In a match of "manhood," the rhetorical war between the legislative branch and the judicial branch of the federal government – as much as any of the other...

wASHINGTON, March 31 - The life and death of Terri Schiavo - intensely public, highly polarizing and played out around the clock on the Internet and television- has become a touchstone in American culture. Rarely have the forces of politics, religion and medicine collided so spectacularly, and with such potential for lasting effect. Ms. Schiavo, the profoundly incapacitated woman whose family split over whether she would have preferred to live or die, forced Americans into a national conversation about the end of life. Her case raised questions about the role of government in private family decisions. But her legacy may...

The medical examiner completed the autopsy of Terri Schiavo on Friday, clearing the way for the release of the body to her husband, who plans to cremate her remains and bury the ashes without telling his in-laws when or where. Results of the autopsy may not be released for several weeks, the medical examiner's office said. Husband Michael Schiavo hopes the autopsy will settle questions about her medical condition, but experts differ on whether that will happen. Michael Schiavo and his in-laws spent Friday planning separate funerals for the 41-year-old woman, who died Thursday - 13 days after her feeding...

Defying all odds Terri is still alive. Are you being targeted for euthanasia? (Schiavo case only the tip of the iceberg!) Schiavo parents plan new US Supreme Court appeal Jeb Bush's political obituary Florida lawmaker says he will consider impeaching Schiavo Judge Greer

--- Terri Schiavo and the Culture of Death Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas March 25, 2005 "But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death." (Proverbs 8:36) America as of late has been inundated with a steady dose of death. Innocent blood is flowing unabated throughout our nation. It appears that the American dream of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness is hemorrhaging and becoming a nightmare right before our very eyes. The nightly news lists the litany of woe and murderous rampages that are savaging our land. "Four dead in Dallas," "Four...

Husband's brother says he'll never forgive Schindlers(CNN) -- Terri Schiavo's death Thursday did nothing to lessen the bitter feud between the Schiavos and the Schindlers -- with both sides continuing their war of words even as they mourned. Her death came less than 12 hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected her parents' last appeal and nearly two weeks after doctors, acting on an order issued by a state circuit court judge, removed her life-sustaining feeding tube. (Full story) She was 41 and had been incapacitated since 1990, when she suffered a heart attack that caused permanent brain damage. None...

"As the nation bitterly debates the Terri Schiavo case, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has tried to stay above the fray, refusing to take sides and staying as quiet as possible," the New York Post's Deborah Orin wrote in a column published yesterday before Mrs. Schiavo's death. Continues... ================================================================= Michael Schiavo finally got his wish Michael Schiavo finally got his wish -- his wife is dead. Terri Schiavo, who clung on to life for 13 agonizing days without food and water at a Florida hospice, was pronounced dead at the scene yesterday at 9:05 a.m. EST. A real class act to...

Summaries of state Department of Children & Families investigations into the treatment Terri Schiavo cannot be released to the media, a judge ruled Friday. Ruling the day after Schiavo died, Circuit Judge George Greer denied a request from the St. Petersburg Times to obtain summaries of dozens of investigations into complaints that Schiavo was being mistreated. None of the allegations were substantiated. The death of Schiavo, 41, ended a gut-wrenching court battle between her husband, Michael Schiavo, and parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, over whether she would have wanted to live in a persistent vegetative state. Greer ruled the records...

can we kill the school lunch programs? can we tell the Dims, when they launch into the accusations of Republicans starving the old, the poor, and the children, to effectively shove it? can we kill all of the aid shipped to starving nations? can we tell Sally Struthers to quit being such a right-wing extremist for denying Third Worlders their state of bliss? can we finally de-canonize the homeless? can Michael Moore finally bathe, and see his feet?

Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman at the heart of a bitter legal dispute, has died, a spokesman for her parents has said. Mrs Schiavo's feeding tube was disconnected on 18 March, following a seven-year battle through the courts. Her husband Michael Schiavo had said his wife would not have wanted to live in her current condition. The 41-year-old's parents fought to the highest level of the US courts system to keep their daughter alive. TERRI SCHIAVO CASE Feb 1990: Terri Schiavo collapses May 1998: Mr Schiavo files petition to remove feeding tube Oct 2003: Florida lower house passes "Terri's...

San Diego -- NOW THAT Terri Schiavo has died, many of the questions the country has been wrestling with are moot.It no longer matters which doctor had the right diagnosis, or whether Schiavo's husband or parents had her best interests at heart, or whether the federal government should have been involved, or whether this was a case that was best handled by doctors and family members as opposed to politicians and judges.

CLEARWATER, Fla. A Florida judge is keeping some records of investigations into Terri Schiavo's treatment out of the hands of the media. The St. Petersburg Times wanted access to summaries from the state Department of Children and Families. The agency launched dozens of investigations into complaints that the brain-damaged woman was mistreated. Some were based on bone scans showing Schiavo suffered fractures. Others were based on statements she made to family and friends that she was unhappy in her marriage. Schiavo's husband has denied harming her. Circuit Judge George Greer has denied the request -- saying the records belong to...

townhall.comJudging Terri Jan M. LaRue April 1, 2005>snip<One of the most puzzling aspects of this distressing ordeal has been the repeated mantra, "People just don't want government involved in 'end-of-life' decisions. It should be left to the family.">snip< How could anyone miss the pervasive presence of government that Michael Schiavo set in motion against Terri?>snip< The Florida Legislature, like every other state legislature, has enacted laws that regulate end-of-life issues. >snip<Florida's definition of spouse allowed an adulterous Michael Schiavo to express Terri's "wishes." >snip<The issue under Florida law is whether Terri ever expressed a statement that she would not want...

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On March 31, 2005, thirty years after feminism’s hey-day in the 1970s, a woman died from dehydration, on the orders of her adulterous husband, who was supported by the courts in his quest to end his wife’s life. On February 25, 1990, Theresa Schindler Schiavo collapsed in her home and suffered significant brain damage. In 1992, Mrs. Schiavo’s husband Michael was awarded a $1,050,000 malpractice settlement, of which $300,000 was allocated for Mr. Schiavo’s loss of consortium and $750,000 for Mrs. Schiavo’s rehabilitative care. Mr. Schiavo subsequently refused to allow rehabilitative care for his wife. There are other reasons to...

St. Francis Catholic worker Lana Jacobs (R) is arrested by Pinellas Park, Florida police officers and is handcuffed by Pinellas Park Sheriff deputies for trespassing. Jacobs tried to take a bottle of water into the Woodside Hospice for Terri Schiavo in Pinellas Park, Florida on March 22, 2005. Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman who resides at the Hospice had her feeding tube removed last Friday, March 18, 2005 by a court order. REUTERS/Rick Fowler

Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, the well-known forensic pathologist and coroner of Allegheny County, Pa., told listeners of a morning radio show that he was denied permission to observe Terri Schiavo's autopsy, despite the wishes of her parents. A medical examiner in Pinellas County, Florida, is conducting an autopsy that could help determine what Schiavo's state of consciousness was and whether she was abused by her husband, as the Schindlers allege. Wecht, appearing on the syndicated America's Morning Show with Quinn and Rose, based in Pittsburgh, said that an investigator working for the Schindler's law firm had called him on Thursday...

How are we to explain liberal's and leftists' support for disconnecting Terri Schiavo from her feeding tube and making her die a slow death, while she is guarded by police officers who prevent anyone from even putting a drop of water to her lips? And how are we to explain the liberals' belief that conservatives, who want to prevent this horror from occurring, are religious dictators intruding into a purely private matter? Most people think that the liberals are driven by their pro-abortion ideology, which takes the form of opposition to the Christian idea that Terri's radically limited life is...

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Medical examiners concluded an autopsy on Terri Schiavo on Friday, and prepared to release her remains to family members who continued to fight bitterly over the case of the brain-damaged woman who became the flashpoint for a nationwide debate over right-to-die issues. "The examination included routine forensic autopsy procedures, supplemented by full post mortem X-rays," the Pinellas County, Fla., medical examiner's office said in a statement. "Terri Schiavo's remains are ready for release to the establishment selected by the legally authorized person, for purposes of final disposition. "

WASHINGTON, March 31, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Thursday, March 24, the director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida sent an e-mail to advocates for the abortion operation telling them how to "express your appreciation" to Florida Republican senators who split with the GOP leadership by voting against a bill intended to save Terri Schiavo. The message listed the names and contact information for the six senators. "Apparently Planned Parenthood isn't content with killing 244,628 innocent children in the last year through abortion. Now the harmful organization is telling its advocates how to thank elected officials...

James P. Pinkerton Schiavo case: Should government pay? March 31, 2005 The Terri Schiavo case reminds us that Americans are a people of plenty, and also a people of plenteous faith. Both forms of abundance will be tested in the years to come, as the religious right fuses with the secular left around the common project of big government. One impact of Schiavo has been the knitting together of conservative Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, into a common cause: weaving a seamless "culture of life." And while polls show that these conservatives are a minority, it's apparent that they have...

RUSH: Folks, I gotta tell you something. I feel like taking a shower after I listen to this guy. This guy is like a cult leader. This guy is no different than these people, than these cult leaders that get people to go die because they're going to go meet some mother ship 24 million miles away up in outer space. What was the name of that wacko group out in California? I can't remember the name of that group, but we have cult leaders. Jim Jones. They're all over the place, and this -- Heaven's Gate! This guy just...

Just announced on FoxNews that the Schindler family will hold a press conference at 4:30 PM EST.

Terri Schiavo's battle for life is over, and as a result, our nation will forever be changed. Her murder, or as Michael Schiavo would say, "Her slow, painless and peaceful death" clears the way for others, who do not believe in a person's "right to life" or the notion that life is divinely inspired by God, to start killing at will. While Terri's pain has ended, our children's suffering and pain has just begun. Our nation's youth got an earful within the last month and the messages being delivered by parents, teachers, television and Terri's husband were clear: A handicapped...

We're not the first to this party, but, hey, it's never too late to pile on Paul Krugman. Rightwing Nuthouse says that Krugman's latest column in the New York Times is evidence that he has "gone stark, raving mad." I won't go that far; let's just say that Krugman has abandoned any claim to be taken seriously. Krugman's latest column is a hysterical tirade against conservative Republicans. But you knew that; I'll have to be more specific. Krugman is worried that conservative Christians are about to start assassinating liberals. No, really, I'm not kidding: [N]obody wants to talk about the...

March 25, 2005 HER BODY, MY SELF : What's In It for Michael Schiavo? -added font A SHORT NOTE CONCERNING the financial benefits to Michael Schiavo that will accrue from the death of his wife. AmericanDigest.org -added website source Posted by Vanderleun -added author (EXCERPT) What I do have some sense of is how much money Michael Schiavo stands to make if, and only if, his wife dies. It is, for a man, with a fresh new wife and two children, substantial. Having worked as an editor for Houghton Mifflin and as a literary agent, I have some the price...

Terri Schiavo's estranged husband Michael has denied her a final communion before she is expected to succumb to a painful starvation death. The decision has left Terri's parents and family in a state of shock.Responding for the Schindler family, Brother Paul O' Donnell said it was an affront to Terri and her Catholic beliefs. 'Terri Schiavo, a practicing Catholic all of her life, has been denied the precious body and blood of our Lord, Jesus Christ. This is in violation of her religious rights and freedoms and (should) allow the governor to intervene.'The decision is important to Terri's family as...

Pinellas Park, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A leading Catholic priest who visited Terri Schiavo on two separate occasions in the hours before her death says Terri was in a weakened medical condition from 13 days of starvation but was responsive until her death. The disabled woman even prayed with her family. "Last night, I spent about two hours with her until past midnight, together with Bobby Schindler and Suzanne, and then again this morning for about an hour and a half, and then right up until about ten minutes before she died," Father Frank Pavone said. Pavone, the director of Priests...

In his strongest comments yet on the Terri Schiavo case, actor Mel Gibson calls her killing "nothing more than state sanctioned murder.” The actor and director spoke out Wednesday night in a telephone interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. "I heard their cry for help,” Gibson explained his public comments. Gibson insisted that Terri Schiavo is not in a vegetative state. Gibson said he decided to take a public stand because "it is completely wrong to deprive this poor woman from food and water.”He added that the court ordered method of killing – depriving her of basic sustenance --...

Congressional and state lawmakers offered their condolences Thursday to the family of Terri Schiavo (search) and said the severely brain-damaged woman's death left many emotional issues to be dealt with. "Today, millions of Americans are saddened by the death of Terri Schiavo," President Bush said just before commenting on a weapons of mass destruction report issued by a blue-ribbon commission on Thursday. Saying Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler (search), displayed "grace and dignity" throughout the long, emotional ordeal, Bush urged those grieving to "continue to work to build a culture of life where all Americans are welcomed and valued...

"THE RULE OF LAW" VS MORALITY One of the important lessons to be learned from the Terri Schiavo case is this: We cannot legislate morality, but we can legislate morally. Once we cut through the overheated rhetoric, once we get past the supercharged emotions, once we get beyond the charges and countercharges, we find that the Schiavo case is no longer a medical case, no longer a judicial case, and no longer a cause to involve lawmakers. Her case is a moral case. And without a consideration of morality, the judicial, medical and legislative decisions made are hollow and devoid...

Marylander Kept Alive For Nearly 20 Years Through Feeding Tube BALTIMORE -- A Maryland case involving eerily similar circumstances to the case of Florida's Terri Schiavo led to changes in state laws. Ronald Mack was kept alive for nearly 20 years through a feeding tube. As in the Schiavo case, his spouse fought to let him die while his family fought to keep him alive, WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Kate Amara reported. Mack was newly married: a healthy, athletic father of two. But just after getting out of boot camp in 1983, the 20-year-old was involved in a car accident,...

These last few weeks watching the Terri Schiavo story unfold have been very difficult for me, because every time I see a picture of Terri I am reminded of my brother. Like Terri, my brother could not feed or take care of himself in any way. Like Terri, there were moments when he could react to someone's voice or presence. Like Terri, my brother did not have a living will. Like Terri, my family had to face the questions and even accusations that my brother's life was not worth the effort and expense. The real question the accusers wanted to...

Rep. Tom DeLay is appearing on Special Report with Brit Hume to discuss the activist judiciary and the recently passed federal law calling for a de novo review of the Terri Schindler Schiavo case.

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A leading Catholic priest who visited Terri Schiavo on two separate occasions in the hours before her death says Terri was in a weakened medical condition from 13 days of starvation but was responsive until her death. The disabled woman even prayed with her family. "Last night, I spent about two hours with her until past midnight, together with Bobby Schindler and Suzanne, and then again this morning for about an hour and a half, and then right up until about ten minutes before she died," Father Frank Pavone said. Pavone, the director of Priests for Life, said most of...

Terri Schiavo, Martyr, By: Deacon Keith Fournier © Third Millennium, LLC The news out of Pinellas Park, Florida breaks the hearts of all decent people. It should shake us to the core. Terri Schiavo is dead, intentionally deprived of food and water, with the force of the raw power of government holding the hands of the executioners. She was killed deliberately, by starvation and dehydration. No Court, Legislative body or Chief Executive had the courage to stop this killing. She was deprived of her substantive due process rights by every branch of government. Terri was not dying. She was not...

On March 31, 1631, English priest and poet John Donne entered into life everlasting. He is Commemorated this day on the calendars of the Episcopal and Lutheran churches. His most well known essay is "for whom the bell tolls". Nuc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris. Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die. ...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well...