Posted on 02/24/2005 8:38:06 PM PST by Deo volente
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 24, 2005 (Zenit.org).- A Vatican official launched an appeal to save Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman whose husband wants her off life-support care.
On Wednesday a Florida judge ordered the tube delivering food and water to Schiavo kept in place another 48 hours.
Pinellas County Circuit Judge George Greer said he needed time to consider legal challenges raised by the woman's parents, including the possibility that her husband, Michael Schiavo, was unfit to act as her guardian.
In statements on Vatican Radio, Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said: "If Mr. Schiavo succeeds legally in causing the death of his wife, this not only would be tragic in itself, but would be a grave step toward the legal approval of euthanasia in the United States."
He added: "I would like to remind everyone in this connection, about all that the Holy Father has said in past days to the Pontifical Academy for Life, confirming that the quality of life is not interpreted as economic success, beauty and physical pleasure, but consists in the supreme dignity of the creature made in the image and likeness of God.
"No one can be the arbiter of life except God himself."
Just who are "the least of these"?
Renato Martino begins, ever so slightly, to redeem himself.
I do not believe the governor would order them arrested, particularly if every street and alley leading to the place for miles around were cram packed with other individuals to take their places.
"That judge needs to see this!"
Judge George Greer
Rm. 484, 315 Court Street
Clearwater, FL 33756
Primary Phone: (727) 464-3933
E-Mail:courts@jud6.org , Judge George Greer
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ping to this thread with its implications (I hope) for more vocal local support for Terri's family, and to FL engineer's post #18 of Fr. Frank Pavone's homily on Terri.
incomplete ping to those I can think of.
Some might say "'bout damn time" - isn't this the first time they've said a peep about her?
And they're not 'stepping in' - they're only making noises. Stepping-in would equate with filing motions, petitioning, attending vigils, doing actual physical work, etc. that others have been doing all along.
I'm just glad they did something definitive and positive regarding the situation.
Gee, ya think? Just because he wants to starve her to death?
The woman is disabled. If she were to die a natural death, that'd be what I call a "sad relief." But what her husband wants to do is murder her, and the liberals are in favor because that's one more step in the direction they want this country to go: Euthanasia, pure and simple.
Yes!!!! That the vatican spoke on Terri's behalf is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!
Prayers for Terri and thank you for posting this excellent news!
"I dont CARE what the SYSTEM says. There is a law HIGHER than ANY court. There is a law HIGHER than ANY decree. And a decree to let a person be STARVED - HAS - NO - authority."
"You see, when a judge issues somebody a decree like this, somebody has to photocopy it, somebody has to transmit it, somebody has to carry it from point A to point B. And the people who are entrusted with that task MUST REFUSE to do it. There are people who have to actually have to transfer it. Terri or anybody else who might be subject to this kind of a decree,"
"and reconnected, you've got to refuse. [....] to the place where they are going to be starved. disconnect her feeding tube, take her to another room... Don't bring her. Don't DO IT! You've got to refuse."
Judge Greer's decree to starve Terri has NO AUTHORITY. People must REFUSE to starve her!!!!!!!
I stongly agree with father. He is absolutely RIGHT!
Thank you for the ping, cyn. This is good news for Terri, her family and her lawyers!
Well worth repeating in bold and large letters.
I dont know what you mean, those 4 words don't seem to be anywhere in the text I typed. Now if you mean what is the section with square brackets, I tried to say
---my satellite signal is breaking up---
but I put those words in angle brackets by mistake and F.R. stripped that part out.
Watch for updates, I recorded it twice, so between the two, I should be able to make an accurate transcript.
Bump!
Had the pro-euthenasia people conceded that a man who fathered twho children by another woman and pledged to marry her was not a suitable guardian for his wife, they would have lost very little. After all, I don't think very many people would think such a man should be a guardian.
But I have faith that much more will be exposed. Just as the Egyptions could have let the Israelites flee, so could the pro-euthenasia people have let Terri go. But the Egyptions received the reward for their over-eager pursuits. May it be likewise today.
I truly hope the Governor of Florida agrees with this. It reminds me of the story of Antigone, who sought to uphold the higher law, against the decree of Creon the King, who believed "Disobedience is the worst of evils." It is understandable that a state governor desires to respect the civil law---but I pray that he is aware, that obedience to a bad law is not always a single act of wrongdoing. You start by the error of making the civil law supreme, you wind up having to send law enforcement after people who are doing what is right, locking them up, destroying them.
In other words, upholding a bad law is not, in the hands of a governor, merely an act of omission. As soon as he declares that the civil law, whether moral or immoral, is paramount, he becomes an enemy of the good, for he is committing himself to become party to the prosecution of good people doing the right thing.
"My hands are tied," is about as valid as "My hands are washed."
Jeb Bush did the right thing in 2003, and it was courageous of him. He is definitely not a typical politician. We have to have some faith in his discernment now; that he knows he has no duty to uphold a perversion of law, but a duty to oppose it with every power at his command.
Which tells you this is about bigger fish. Euthanasia advocacy.
post often, ok?
Which I understand has been used in the past to deliver meds to stave off the seizures of sodium imbalance. IE, some feeding tubes were never pulled but left in place to deliver anti-convulsants.
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