Vatican cardinal condemns starving death of Terri Schiavo
``When you deprive somebody of food and water, what else is it? Nothing else but murder,'' Martino said, adding that he was speaking on the case ``according to the teaching of the pope.'' The pontiff has spoken on behalf of providing food and water, even through artificial means, to patients like Schiavo.
The Pope is not the Church. AFAIK, the 1980 encyclical is still in force.