[jackibutterfly]

"As a non-Catholic, this sort of thing reaffirms my sense that the Catholic Church is a bad joke."

No, Michael is the "bad joke". IF he would have followed what the Catholic Church teaches, Terri probably would be alive today. That's the problem with people (and with Cardinal Law) - they want to make up their own rules. There's nothing wrong with the Catholic Church's teachings, it's the people that's the problem.

[Dante3]

Michale is not a Catholic and Jodi apparently is divorced from first husband. The St. Petersburg Times, admittedly not a credible paper, stated that Jodi wanted the divorced from first husband allegedly because her father died in a car accident.

Incidentally, Jodi has had bad luck with cars. She was in two car accidents (1987 & 1988) which left her with chronic neck pain and back pain and she sued both the drivers, the cases settled out of court. Then her father died in a car accident.