Read the AP report here
Read the AP report here
Father God,
Please continue to shower the Schindler family with your outpouring of love.
May this acknowledgement of their precious daughter's infinite
value, be an effective balm to their very wounded spirits.
Thank you Lord for all those who fought to spare Terri's life and show
us what is next in this battle to protect all human life, from fertilization through natural death.
Wonderful!!! I hope this trip helps to lift their spirits. I am hoping and praying, Pope Benedict will also meet with them personally. I understand the Schindler's will be in the General Audience of the Pope tomorrow, and he is aware of it!
That's wonderful news!
Mary's smile is gone. Her heart has to be irreparably broken. I pray for them a lot!
Bishops, Priests, and Friends:
President and Governor Bush and others are dragging their feet to have a Federal Investigation into the OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE IN PINELLAS COUNTY. This is the biggest REPUBLICAN COVER-UP AND SCANDAL IN OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY.
TERRI SCHIAVO WAS ILLEGALLY KILLED IN VIOLATIONS OF FLORIDA LAWS. GREER IS NOT A JUDGE, BECAUSE HE VIOLATED THE ELECTION RULES. AN ILLEGAL KILLING BY AN ILLEGAL JUDGE.
If you recall President of the Senate, Sen. King refused to take up the House version of Terri's Law in the Senate. He had to protect his legacy. NOW IT IS TIME FOR HIM TO GO!
He was replaced by Senator Tom Lee as President of the Senate. Now as a member of the Senate he rallied support to defeat the last minute House version Bill that would have saved Terri Schiavo. TIME FOR HIM TO GO!
FV says: I called Sen. Tom Lee's office today and no wonder they didn't want to discuss Judge Greer with me. I didn't realize they deep sixed the House version. Shame on him!
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) 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 said.
Bob and Mary Schindler, their son Bobby and their daughter Suzanne, were in the front row at Benedict's general audience.
"When he said 'Terri' he held his hand to his heart like he was very sad," her father added.
Schiavo died on March 31 in Florida after a U.S. state court ordered the feeding tube, which sustained her for 15 years, removed at the request of her husband who said it was what she would have wanted.
Pope John Paul II, who died two days after Schiavo, had declared some life-extending treatments a moral duty for Roman Catholics.
Schiavo's case was followed around the world and sparked outrage at the Vatican, which compared the court to an executioner who "arbitrarily brought forward" the date of her death.
"As Roman Catholics, to see the Pope is the ultimate. We are trying to carry Terri's legacy on," her father said.
Terri's brother, Bobby Schindler, said the family was moved close to tears when they saw sick people being wheeled before the Pope to be blessed by him at the end of the audience.
"We could have done that. Terri is very similar to those people ... it was just sad that she couldn't be here with us to share it," he said.
Throughout the Terri Schiavo case, the Catholic Church defended the family's efforts to defend life, which the Church teaches starts at the moment of conception and ends at the moment of natural death.
"I think we are seeing a real attack on the culture of life and I think Terri's case exposed just how powerful and dangerous this 'death group' is and what's happening across America," her brother said. Terri Schiavo's sister Suzanne Vitadamo said: "We did this for Terri. We believe she is sitting with the pope up in heaven. I'm sure she is looking down on us and smiling."
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