Terri Schiavo family thanks pope for support

Yahoo News - Reuters ^ | May 18, 2005 | Philip Pullella

[Aliska]

When I see you object to trashing good and decent people due to the constant attacks, then just maybe you'll have some kind of a point.

The Schiavo's are good and decent people, and they are being trashed for going to Rome.

[Hildy]

No...do you know if they did?

[Hildy]

I'm not trashing anyone...I'm saying they did it for a photo op. That's not trashing. When it comes to this subject people here lose all sense of proportion. I'll tell you this, I wish people here would devote this much passion to the living as they do to the dead.

[Petronski]

No I don't.


But since it's still possible they paid their own way, we still don't know there is any benefit to them that might be called "profit."

[Petronski]

I wish people here would devote this much passion to the living as they do to the dead.

We did. Right up to the moment when Felos, Greer and the HINO killed her.

[Hildy]

Yea, and they set up their own meeting with the Pope too. Be real.

[Hildy]

Ok...I'll change that...I wish people here would devote this much passion to the living as they do the dead and the near dead.

[oceanview]

well, have they done that? that's the difference between profiteering and promotion.

[Hildy]

the difference between profiteering and promotion.

Some would say that's in the eye of the beholder.

[Petronski]

"...photo op..."

Do you have a link to the photo(s)?

[oceanview]

there is an issue here for Catholics. in fact, during the whole debate here during her last days, I wondered why so many people I knew in what should have been an "anti-Terri" liberal locale like NYC metro, were pro-Terri. Then I realized that most of the people I know and talk to everyday - are Catholics and religious Jews - that's why.

[Petronski]

Oh, post #9. Nevermind.

[Petronski]

Yea, and they set up their own meeting with the Pope too. Be real.

I'm being very real. Both this Pope and his predecessor understand the important precedent being set by this case. Defending life is the Pope's job.

Thus, if the Schindler's wanted to be in the front row at a public audience, all they'd need to do is tell their parish priest.

[unbalanced but fair]

It would be a good idea for everyone to at least get the facts straight. I believe it's the Schindlers who went to Rome, not the Schiavos.

[Aliska]

Yea, and they set up their own meeting with the Pope too.

And you know this to be a fact how?

[Aliska]

Sorry, I goofed about that. I meant Schindlers. I'll wear a hair shirt to bed. Since I don't happen to own one, I'll have to improvise with some cat hair or something.

[unbalanced but fair]

Well, if a hair shirt helps you to post things with accuracy, go for it. Just don't shave any cats.

[STARWISE]

What a cynical attitude... pathetic.

Aside from this type of post, a *much-deserved break* for the Schindlers .. God Bless Them .. a more devoted family there just couldn't be. May God grant them peace in time. BTT!!

[Sun]

If there were awards for families of the year, it should go to the Schindlers.

[STARWISE]

Vatican Cardinal Meets with Schiavo Kin

Excerpts:

"ROME - The family of Terri Schiavo met with a top cardinal Tuesday to thank him for the Vatican's support as they sought to keep the brain-damaged woman alive.

Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler, said that support from Cardinal Renato Martino and other Vatican officials had helped the family "spiritually" in their unsuccessful battle against a court order to have Schiavo's feeding tube removed.

"Just knowing that he supported us gave us strength," said Schiavo's mother, Mary Schindler, following a 15-minute private audience with Martino."

(snip)

"Martino heads the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and had urged in February that the feeding tube not be removed.

The Vatican condemned her death as "arbitrarily hastened," and called the removal of her feeding tube a violation of the principles of Christianity and civilization. Martino said Tuesday that Schiavo's death was "an insult to human dignity."