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Why is it just Catholics you want to "wake up"? Shouldn't everybody be included?

I'll take everybody I can get, but I'm concerned about my fellow Catholics because of the sorry leadership we have (particularly in Florida) and because of articles like this pro-killing garbage in the Catholic press. (The piece I referenced appeared in Commonweal, but we had one almost as bad in the Atlanta Catholic paper, which is supposedly ultra-conservative.)

Thanks for pointing me to your reference. That is most definitely a perversion of Catholic doctrine. While the withholding of food and water isn't completely against Catholic doctrine, I think it is intended to be used conscientiously (which in Terri's case, it is not). These people also seem to not realize that Terri has most likely been misdiagnosed as PVS. She couldn't possibly have just gone into a PVS state unless she had another anoxic episode, because she was talking and communicating with her caregivers early on in her recovery. You're right. I wish there were more good Catholic articles about Terri. There are so many "Catholic" groups these days that have little in common with the Church in Rome.