"It’s hard to imagine what Bishop Clemens von Galen thought as he mounted the podium to deliver his sermon in 1941. Would a bullet stop him before he could finish? Would the SS officers standing in the back finish him off after Mass? Would he be shot, or hacked to death like St. Thomas Beckett, who was beheaded in his own cathedral by the king’s thugs?
"Von Galen’s bravery and the Florida Bishops half-hearted response to Terri’s death sentence contrast each other completely. Viewed in the context of centuries of martyrs - Catholic men and women who willingly died rather than allow evil - the Florida Bishops are worse than cowards. They are a disgrace. It’s hard to imagine any Christian approaching Terri’s case with such coldness and lack of empathy.
"What does it really mean to be an American when a sitting judge can sentence an invalid to death by dehydration in a manner Adolph Hitler couldn’t even get away with? And what does it imply when there isn’t an outcry or von Galen-style protest from the clergy or the larger population? Don’t the senior citizens of Florida realize that they are next?!"