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."
Or maybe a side by side of yours with the euthanasia centers of Germany. I'll see if I can find some pics. And then at the bottom, Germany, year, America, year (future year).
The above comment is IMO an intentionally deceitful lie.
For years I have argued the Holy See, through its bishop representative in the United States, has been an active partner in the 'euthanasia death industry' here and in particular, the late great State of Florida.
The entire Florida political process is IMO, greased by that state's death industry. The power brokers, including the media, legal, medical professions, as well as all three branches of government, have their hands in a system developed to strip the helpless of every asset they own.
Further, this same cabal has been tight lipped throughout Terri ordeal, and have actively pursued a brainwashing of that populace in favor of euthanasia for the crippled, aged and the infirmed. See Florida Bishops Accused of 'Deafening Silence' in Euthanasia Case
I have continuously asserted my belief that the abominable black hearted silence of the Catholic bishops in Florida can be traced to its own participation in the death industry. It is indicative of their corrupted mind-set, bonding them with those who have done very, very well amending the wills of the dying. Take your pick on the receipents of amended wills. So-called medical research foundations, property transfers to local dioceses, store front political foundations, and for each and every amendment there comes lawyer fees you and I work a lifetime to bank. It is a very big business. A financial gold mine, feeding the lowest rung of humanity. The system.
IMO the Vatican would have the world believe it stands apart from the death industry, when it in fact it wrote the book. An appropriate title should be, Fleecing the Innocents: Transferring assets of the Aged, Crippled, Confined, and Those Without Next of Kin
How do you suppose the church can account for its lucrative ownership of real estate fronting the Potomac, or its extensive investment in highly profitable 'non-profit' hospital and aged care facilities.
Better yet, tell me when you, or any of the faithful, were permitted to read a prospectus/accounting detailing the non-church real estate holdings of the American Roman Catholic church? No doubt a revelation of this magnitude would cast an embarrassing and unforgiving light on their present zealousness to make accessibility to the Sacraments more difficult by selling off local church site property. Worst of all, they dare argue profitability as their basis for denying local Holy Mass and availability of Holy Sacraments. Here, the faithful suffers twice: they paid for the construction of the church, and it they must do a penance of denial of Sacraments for siding with truth about the sin within.
In the meantime the profit making real estate is immune. The Church will protect its financial lifeline built upon the contributions of the dead and dying.
Sin is holding hard and fast to control of The Church. My God have pity on us.
Our Lady of La Salette, pray for us.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
Saint Pius X, pray for us.
Saint Padre Pio, pray for us.
Sister Maria Lucia of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart, pray for us.
I agree.
bttt
A court decree, with all the respectability that that SHOULD have...is IN FACT, an act of violence...if in fact it is authorizing the killing of an innocent person....these laws and decrees..."are completely lacking in authentic juridic validity. Consequently, a civil law of that kind, ceases to be a truly morally binding civil law."
Well, for the first time ever, I agree with Martino on something and appreciate his input.
I have written to my bishop here in Florida, appealing for him to say something, since the bishops here have distinguished themselves by issuing exactly one mealy-mouthed and ambiguous statement about this some months ago. Jeb Bush is a much better Catholic than they are, even though people would expect the Catholic bishops to come out fighting for her and are probably puzzled that they are not.
Maybe this will get them off their posteriors, although I suspect they are all avoiding the issue because nobody wants to challenge the bishop of that diocese, who has been scandalously silent.
Thanks for the draft.
Thank you for posting this. Now, if we could just get the Florida Catholic Bishops to believe in the Pope's teachings.
Bishop Lynch will not issue any statement of support for Terri and it was reported that he told the priests in his diocese to stay out of it.
Neither the Bishop or his secretary are returning calls or giving any statements on Terri.
Please cite Florida case law and or Florida statute.
It's called MORAL LAW. I was quoting from the Pope, as posted by fl_engineer. Every state has such a law, btw, incorporated into its constitution. The military also has such, so that those who are "commanded" to commit that which is wrong cannot be forced to commit such a wrong. No government authority can force me to commit a criminal act, regardless of what lesser laws are in place.
An army of one. That should do it.
Bump!
So: more words equals "definitive and positive"? Good for you.
"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."As regards Terri Shiavo's situation, that statement is both positive and definitive. It is clearly directled squarely at the Shiavo situation.,
"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
Look, you can read into, or out of those words whatever you wish. I am expressing my own opinion of the matter and am glad to represent it only as such.
It would be nice if someone would tell Floridians what was going on. THE QUOTE BY DANIEL WEBSTER made me sick. "The Court has come up with much better solutions than we have so far." Daniel Webster who we thought was for justice.
It is Orrin Hatch that allowed Senate investigations into Filegate and Chinagate to lapse. Less we forget this scumbag's involvement in the BCCI scandal. Truth is a foreign to him as an illegal alien.
Truth is [as] foreign to him as an illegal alien.
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