Posted on 01/23/2006 7:12:44 AM PST by NYer
SAFETY HARBOR - Michael Schiavo and Jodi Centonze were married in a private ceremony at Espiritu Santo Catholic Church on Saturday.
"It was very emotional," said John Centonze, brother of the bride, just after the noon ceremony. "It's been a long time coming. A lot of things happened in between."
The wedding came a day after the couple applied for a Pinellas County marriage license and 10 months after the death of Schiavo's first wife, Terri.
Terri Schiavo died March 31, two weeks after her feeding tube was removed, and 15 years after a cardiac arrest that left her in what most doctors called a persistent vegetative state. Her death was a most public process, with the Florida Legislature, Congress, the courts, pundits and interest groups weighing in.
The wedding, in contrast, was private. Mindful of the media circus that had whirled about Terri Schiavo's hospice for weeks, along with throngs of protesters, the families kept the time and location of Saturday's ceremony a secret. Three St. Petersburg Times journalists arrived at the church, but were asked not to go in.
Schiavo wore a black tuxedo and Centonze wore a long, flowing, white wedding gown. Their two children attended. The bride and groom did not make any public comment.
"Except for the fact that the world knows their name, it was like any wedding you've ever been to," said Michael Hirsh, who attended, and who is helping Schiavo write a book titled Terri: The Truth.
Hirsh estimated about 80 people attended. The priest offered no homily. Afterward the wedding party went to a reception at East Lake Country Club.
"It was just a beautiful ceremony," Hirsh said. "Everyone there was just extremely happy for them."
Hirsh said, "There weren't a lot of dry eyes in the place."
Centonze agreed. "I had a couple tears," he said.
Schiavo and Jodi Centonze met in a dentist's office and began dating a few years later. Terri Schiavo already had suffered her accident, and already was living in a nursing home.
Schiavo referred to Jodi Centonze as his fiancee for more than five years, as the Terri Schiavo case worked its way through the court system, and the halls of the Florida Legislature and Congress.
Some of Schiavo's friends compared him during this time to a man whose wife had Alzheimer's disease; he still loved his wife but also wanted companionship. But in the superheated rhetoric of Terri Schiavo's last months, critics called him an adulterer because he had taken up with another woman while still married.
In 1990, cardiac arrest deprived Terri Schiavo of oxygen for five minutes. Doctors eventually diagnosed her as being in a persistent vegetative state, meaning she was not conscious of her surroundings.
However, Terri Schiavo's family sharply disagreed and consulted doctors who disputed or doubted the diagnosis of a persistent vegetative state. They hoped to keep her alive and give her extensive therapy.
An autopsy concluded that Terri Schiavo never would have recovered from the brain damage she suffered during her 1990 collapse. Doctors have never competely understood what brought on her initial cardiac arrest.
"But YOU, flag lady, unlike the American people were aware of the true facts which you chose to ignore. There is no excuse for you."
You're so full of flatulent hot air you could substitute for the wind turbines Teddy Kennedy won't allow near his Cape Cod home. And your moralistic pontificating which beats Charleton Heston playing Moses, is so over the top as to be profoundly disturbing to any rational person. Which leads me to the assumption that you are a very irrational person, my dear, who should be ignored.
So blah, blah, away; you aren't worth the time nor the energy to respond further to. Only those equally insane on this particular issue are worthy of debate with you. I'm sure you'll find plenty of like minds on this very thread. Seek them out, so that you can see your own reflection in them, which is what you really want.
Btw, wasn't the Shindler pro life and anti-abortion rally great on c-span today.
Yes it was. Don't mix apples and oranges. But of course you will.
Could you tell us your heartfelt emotions when you watched that? Particularly, the Shindlers interview?
"They got abortion through the courts also. I am still waiting for the the answer to my question on what your views are in post 135 to your post 131."
Terri Schiavo is dead. The courts have spoken. Get over it.
Could you tell us your heartfelt emotions when you watched that? Particularly, the Shindlers interview?
You're not entitled to know even one of my emotions. Tend to your own.
Everyone knows Terri is dead. The courts have spoken like you say. The courts have also spoken on abortion. Do you agree with the courts on that? Or did you get over that also?
I just asked, sweetlady.
Its none of your damned business whether he got remarried or not, or what the bride wore. You sound like one of the clucking old ladies in Mayberry constantly gossiping and saying "Tut tut".
Michael got on with his life, Terri is dead, after being brain dead. Now you can get on with your life.
If Terri was brain dead, how could she do this? A Coversation with Terri
The absolute power of a judge - increasingly we are sliding into a dictatorship of judges and this is just one small sample.
Sentencing an innocent woman to a horrific death - a type of death not even allowed to the worst criminal - without her even having a lawyer.
The appointing of a guardian who has revealed himself to be a sadistic individual and has a conflict of interest. In Sunny van Bulow's case, for example, the husband was not allowed to be a guardian.
Keeping Terri in a hospice and other medical fraud.
Not allowing a mother to put water on the lips of her dying child. I recommend that you read the article by Martin Katz in "The American Thinker."
The list goes on.
She had no brain, no chance of ever getting better, and MS did what she asked him.
She is dead, move on.
Everyone knows Terri is dead. The courts have spoken like you say. The courts have also spoken on abortion. Do you agree with the courts on that? Or did you get over that also?
Terri Schiavo is dead. The courts have spoken. Get over it.
Terri Schiavo is dead. The courts have spoken. Get over it. Flagadly47
The courts have spoken on abortion. You are being evasive on my question.
Thanks for the response. The only problem I see in your reply is proving what you say.
The courts have spoken on abortion. You are being evasive on my question.
Not that it's any of your business, but I am anti-abortion. And hopefully and lawfully, Bush will continue to change the complexion of the SC by appointing conservative judges such as Roberts and Alito. Now we need one more. However, don't even bother to try to equate abortion with the circumstances of the Schiavo case. As I stated before, it's apples and oranges, and I'm not going to get into a p*ssing match with you about it. One can't argue with closed minds.
I wonder if it was "as beautiful as Terry dying!"
I'll stand behind what the courts decided (you can't be for the rule of law one day, and against it another) and the autopsy.
Open and shut case.
Somehow, I don't believe you. I thought the courts were your masters.
Somehow, I don't believe you. I thought the courts were your masters.
You don't know diddly squat about me, and believe me, it will stay that way. As if I care what you think.
When was I against the 'rule of law'? Will, that was a problematic question. I know the Germans thought it was legal to kill the jews too.
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