Hundreds Mourn Schiavo at Mass in Florida

Reuters ^ | April 5, 2005 | Robert Green

[FairOpinion]

May God keep her soul and comfort her birth family and those who cared about her.

Please don't forget about terrisfight.net, the Terri Schindler-Schiavo foundation, which is planning to carry out the fight for other unfortunatel defenseless victims.

The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation

Terri's family and the volunteers of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation have vowed to focus the Foundation, named for her, on assisting other desperate families in their efforts to protect vulnerable loved ones. Updates will be posted soon.

Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation
4615 Gulf Blvd #104-103
St Petersburg Beach, FL 33706

[FairOpinion]

Terri PING for your list

[Siobhan]

Ping

[Ohioan from Florida]

Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!

[uvular]

One did not need to be a member of the 'Christian right' to champion this cause, Reuters.

Glenn Beck was invited by the Schindlers to speak; I look forward to his comments tomorrow.

[Ohioan from Florida]

My heart goes out to the Schindlers. They are a wonderful, faith-filled family.

[FairOpinion]

And it's a very sad day for the country, if only the "Christian right" is willing to stand up for the life of a defenseless disabled innocent woman.

[Slyfox]

My prayer is that hearts and consciences are pricked and that the Schindlers recieve some justice from this whole thing.

[Aussie Dasher]

May Terri's memory - and what happened to her - inspire us to establish firm and strong stautes that respect ALL human life.

[STARWISE]

And as typical of all the news on the funeral, most were reported by KRT (Knight Ridder Tribune, I believe) and NONE told of Bobby's emotional presentation of the Purple Heart that a Viet Nam sent to the family. I searched all the stories. The small number who did just said the Bobby said she deserved one, but didn't give the whole story that it was sent by a vet .. typical of the MSM. It may have been because fv said that only Fox was allowed in .. but I haven't found their version yet.

[Bellflower]

Actually many, many disabled organizations rallied for Terri. The media kept this hush because they wanted the opposition characterized as right wing Christians. I remember that there was a lady in a wheelchair in with the protesters who sign said "atheist liberal-feed Terri" or words to that effect.

[FairOpinion]

It was probably she:

"Then Eleanor Smith, a self-described liberal agnostic lesbian, whose childhood bout with polio left her confined to a wheelchair, argued that "At this point I would rather have a right-wing Christian decide my fate than an ACLU member." Ms Smith protested last week outside the hospice where Mrs Schiavo lay dehydrating and starving. "

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=348632005

[djreece]

Thank you for the info. I had wondered what the Foundation planned for the future.

[NYer]

Rev. Msgr. Thaddeus Malanowski presides over the Liturgy of the Eucharist during the funeral Mass for Terri Schiavo in Gulfport, Florida, April 5, 2005. Schiavo, 41, died last Thursday, 13 days after the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube was removed under a court order granted to her husband Michael Schiavo. REUTERS/Jim Stem

Father Frank Anthony Pavone, the dedicated National Director of Priests for Life from New York, gives the Homily during the funeral Mass for Terri Schiavo in Gulfport, Florida April 5, 2005. REUTERS/Jim Stem

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[I still care]

"His lawyer, George Felos, has said Schiavo died peacefully and with dignity."

Amazing, I didn't know houseplants had dignity. That's what Felos called Terri in court.

[dsc]

Parn my iggernunce, but shouldn't those priests be in black for a funeral?

[TheSpottedOwl]

"Then Eleanor Smith, a self-described liberal agnostic lesbian, whose childhood bout with polio left her confined to a wheelchair, argued that "At this point I would rather have a right-wing Christian decide my fate than an ACLU member." Ms Smith protested last week outside the hospice where Mrs Schiavo lay dehydrating and starving. "

That about sums up the real feelings of average Americans. No wonder why the Village voice is angry. I am not advocating her lifestyle, but her concerns are the same as ours.

[TheSpottedOwl]

God bless you, Terri. No one can hurt you now...

[goldstategop]

A lot of people wished this had gone differently. But the fight will NOT end. It will continue until every incapacitated, disabled and comatose person in America is assured the right to life that was denied by our courts to Terri. As Rabbi Tarphon said more than two millenia ago, "You may not have not have begun to do this obligation though now that you have assumed it, you're not free to desist from fulfilling it." Let us go forth resolve to affirm the triumph of the Culture Of Life in our society. Our conscience demands no less - we must see to it that Terri and the late Pope John Paul II have not died in vain.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Scarlet7]

A priest may wear white, violet or black vestments at a funeral mass. White vestments suggest the Resurrection.