Schindler Family Attends Mass for Terri Schiavo Hosted by Ave Maria University

Life News ^ | 4/1/09 | Steven Ertelt

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St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The Schindler family attended a special Mass on Tuesday, which marked the fourth anniversary of the painful starvation and dehydration euthanasia death of Terri Schiavo. Ave Maria University, a Florida-based Catholic college, hosted the mass, which saw the entire Schindler family attend.

Bob and Mary Schindler, Terri's parents, joined their other children Bobby Schindler and Suzanne Vitadamo for a ceremony in Terri's honor.

As the Schindlers prayed with participants for other disabled people who face the same euthanasia concerns, they placed a picture of Terri on her wedding day on the altar and joined more than 400 people in remembering her life.

The Mass was part of the International Day of Prayer and Remembrance for Terri Schindler Schiavo that the Schindler family jointly co-sponsors with the Terri Schiavo foundation and Priests for Life.

The two organizations established this day last year to foster education, prayer, and activism regarding discrimination against the disabled.

"God is using Terri to impact the world in a very special way," Bobby Schindler told the News Press.

Thomas Monaghan, founder and chancellor of Ave Maria University, told the newspaper the college was happy to help with the ceremony.

“We're very big on pro-life,” he said. “Our purpose is to fight evil and pro-life is center stage, and that’s where we want to be.”

Fr. Frank Pavone, who was with Bobby and Suzanne at Terri’s bedside as she died, recalls that painful day and the support from pro-life advocates and others.

"As we consoled Terri and prayed with her, what I felt most strongly was the presence of countless people around the world who, by their love, prayers, and tears, accompanied Terri and her family through those difficult days," he said. "I am confident that these same individuals, families, and Churches will want to observe Terri’s Day."

Related web sites:
Terri’s Day - http://www.TerrisDay.org
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.TerrisFight.org
Priests for Life - http://priestsforlife.org

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To the non-Catholics on the list, I apologize that many of the pings lately are Catholic in nature. It is not intentional and is due largely to Zero's desire to defile Notre Dame and appoint extremely pro-death Catholics to high level posts in his administration.

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"We are at War!": Bishop Finn Delivers Rousing Clarion Call to the "Fight for Life" in America

OVERLAND PARK, Kansas, April 21, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Bishop Robert Finn of the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph issued a powerful call to action to pro-lifers at the 2009 Gospel of Life Convention on Saturday. In his speech, Finn heavily criticized pro-abortion Catholic politicians who claim a "personal opposition" to abortion, stating that such persons are "warriors of death" who "have abandoned their place in the citizenship of the Church."

"As I speak a word of encouragement today I also want to tell you soberly, dear friends, 'We are at war!'" began Finn, who said that today's issues bring "an intensity and urgency to our efforts that may rival any time in the past."

The bishop warned that an empty version of the rhetoric of "tolerance" can come from people of all backgrounds, including Christians and Catholics: "The 'battle between believers,' who claim a certain 'common ground' with us, while at the same time, they attack the most fundamental tenets of the Church's teachings, or disavow the natural law - this opposition is one of the most discouraging, confusing, and dangerous," he said.

"Occasionally we still hear an elected official speak of his or her personal opposition to abortion, while they support the legal right to an abortion," he continued.

"We should be very clear: Such a person places him or herself completely OUTSIDE the moral framework, the moral imperative of Evangelium Vitae and other Church teaching on these issues. ... They have abandoned their place in the citizenship of the Church. Quite simply they have become warriors for death rather than life. . .

[tflabo]

Wow...brought tears to my eyes. Terri has certainly been made whole and angelic in her everlasting home.

[BykrBayb]

Thank you for posting that. It is wonderful.

http://books.google.com/books?id=F3u53ibbhtsC&printsec=frontcover#PPA36,M1 ~ The Gospel of Life By John Paul II, John Paul, United States Catholic Conference

The part you posted begins on page 36, about a third or half way down the page.

[BykrBayb]

I have no idea who created that image, and I don’t remember where I found it, but it has always brought me comfort.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[tuckrdout]

Oh wow....so Fr. Dominic Mary was reading JP II’ s homily? I hope he wasn’t trying to plagiarise the Pope’s work?

Seemed like he was making it his own....the part about martyrdoom and the disintegration of democracy and all...But, since I came in the middle of it, Fr. Mary may have been reading JP II’s work.

It is powerful, regardless of who said it!

Thank you for finding the quote for me!

[wagglebee]

This b*tch is the embodiment of evil and must be stopped!

Threads by topher and me.

[Sebelius] Health [HHS] Nominee Veto Sickening

Statement by Mary Kay Culp, Executive Director, Kansans for Life: 913-406-4446

HEALTH NOMINEE VETO SICKENING

If this confirmation goes forward, George Tiller will have a friend, not only in the highest office in Kansas as he likes to brag, but heading the highest health office in the land, and knowing what we know, we think that ought to make every American sick.

Governor Sebelius, like her friend Napolitano, is extremely liberal, but especially so on late-term abortion, end of life issues and cloning. . .

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Sebelius Veto Spurs Mounting Opposition

WASHINGTON, April 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- In response to last night's veto of Kansas Senate Bill 218, Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser called upon Senators to oppose vigorously her Secretary of Health and Human Services nomination:

"If there was any doubt about how a pro-life Senator ought to vote on the Sebelius nomination, there should be no doubt now," said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser. "Sebelius should be opposed for many reasons, but primarily because her concern for abortion providers trumps her duty to protect women. Sebelius' eleventh hour veto of Kansas Senate Bill 218 should provide Senators on the fence the crucial information they need to know before voting. Governor Sebelius veto of this woman-centered legislation goes a long way toward protecting abortion providers like George Tiller, but does nothing to support women when they need it most."

The Susan B. Anthony List spearheaded a coalition letter to RNC Chairman Michael Steele, signed by 33 pro-life organizational and opinion leaders, asking him to oppose the Sebelius nomination. Susan B. Anthony List activists have sent over 42,000 letters of opposition to their Senators. . .

"We will not be silent.
We are your bad conscience.
The White Rose will give you no rest."

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Plan B is also available to 17 year old BOYS, but this doesn't seem to bother the left either.

Thread by tcg.

‘Plan B’ for 17 year old girls: Equipping Children to Kill Children?

Medical evidence disputes the claim that this pill is always “contraceptive” in preventing fertilization. Even the FDA’s own Question and Answers admitted this with these words: “Plan B works like other birth control pills to prevent pregnancy. Plan B acts primarily by stopping the release of an egg from the ovary (ovulation). It may prevent the union of sperm and egg (fertilization). If fertilization does occur, Plan B may prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the womb (implantation).”

More accurate was the Pontifical Academy for Life’s Statement released on October 31, 2000: “The morning-after pill is a hormone-based preparation … which, within and no later than 72 hours after a presumably fertile act of sexual intercourse, has a predominantly "anti-implantation" function, i.e., it prevents a possible fertilized ovum (which is a human embryo), by now in the blastocyst stage of its development (fifth to sixth day after fertilization), from being implanted in the uterine wall by a process of altering the wall itself. The final result will thus be the expulsion and loss of this embryo."

Whether you listen to the Church or to the State, you get to the same place - “Plan B” can result in the taking of human life when it makes implantation of a newly fertilized oocyte impossible. This new human life, seeking shelter and nourishment in the first home of the whole human race finds that there is no room. “Plan B” renders this new human life homeless by subverting “Plan A” which is to welcome her/him into the mothers womb, the first home. “Plan B” becomes a direct chemical attack on a unique human life seeking refuge, a chemical landlord refusing shelter to the newest member of the human family. . .

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A chilling reminder of how many WILL NOT be graduating this year from our dear friend Father Frank Pavone.

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Graduation Day -- A Time to Honor the Missing Says Fr. Pavone

STATEN ISLAND, NY, April 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, today urged graduating students to remember those who, because of abortion, are not participating in ceremonies with them.

"This graduation season, Notre Dame University has chosen to honor a man who couldn't care less about protecting the unborn," said Fr. Pavone. "I urge young men and women receiving their degrees this year to take a different path and honor those who, but for abortion, would have been with them at graduation."

Past graduating classes have remembered the aborted in yearbooks and at commencement exercises through speeches, prayers, or just by leaving an empty chair draped with a cap and gown.

"Over 1 million students again will be missing from ceremonies," added Fr. Pavone. "Let's acknowledge those who could not celebrate with us, and let's work to let others live."

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Australia is the LEAST DENSELY POPULATED major nation in the world (there are 3 people per square kilometer, the US has 31 per square kilometer), and now the Malthusian-Darwinists are pushing for negative population growth.

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Institute One Child Policy for a "Sustainable" Australia : Population Control Group

CANBERRA, April 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A population control pressure group has issued a call for the Australian government to institute a one-child policy to ensure the continent's environmental and economic "sustainability." Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) said this week that Australia's 22 million people must be reduced to 7 million and that restricting each couple to one baby, as China does, is "one way of assisting to reduce the population" and avoiding "environmental suicide."

Speaking on the eve of Earth Day, the group's national president, Sandra Kanck, a former Democrat politician, said a one-child policy is "something we need to throw into the mix."

Population increase, she said, means, "more cars on the road, more coal-fired electricity generated. It entails more houses and other consumer products. It uses more cement, energy and water which all results in more greenhouse gas emissions."

"Increasing the population is basically suicide, it's environmental suicide, it's utterly irresponsible," Kanck said. "We are eating away at the planet, we are eating into all the resources, be it petrol, be it superphosphate, be it clear air."

SPA was founded in Canberra in 1988, and calls for the reduction of the human population to what it believes is a more environmentally manageable size. Ms. Kanck, who has one child herself, also called for the abolition of the government baby bonus for all children in a family after a couple's first.

Stephen Mosher, President of the Population Research Institute, responded to the proposal, saying that to suggest that Australia is overpopulated stretches the imagination. He told LifeSiteNews.com by email, "With only 22 million people scattered across nearly 3 million square miles of land, the dominant carnivore in many parts of the country is not man, but the dingo."

"The Radical Environmentalists in Australia, as everywhere else, think of people as a pestilence. They are determined to reduce their number, even if this means adopting China's one-child policy, with its forced restrictions on birth. And even if this means destroying the economy, and condemning the elderly to a hand-to-mouth existence as the pension funds go belly up."

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[tuckrdout]

This will NOT even be considered in Australia, where they actually pay a “bonus” of about $3000 per child, for women to have babies! They believe that if they don’t start HAVING more people, they will be unable to sustain the nation.

What rubbish. Some people are so ignorant.

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Some people are so ignorant.

Yep, they disregard everything that contradicts their agenda.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[wagglebee]

The Dominican Republic gets it!

Thread by Lesforlife.

Vote protects unborn beginning at conception

The Dominican Republic Lawmakers working on a new constitution for the Dominican Republic have voted overwhelmingly to protect life, specifying in the document that "the right to life is inviolable from conception until death."

The vote yesterday was 167-32 in the national legislature, which was responding to pressure from international pro-abortion groups seeking to expand their business operations into the Caribbean island nation.

"A true respect for human life is protecting it from the beginning, the Dominican Republic is ahead of America in building a society where all human life is truly respected," said Ignacio Reyes, director of Live Action San Jose. . .

[wagglebee]

The lengths that the abortionist will go to grows ever more disgusting.

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Abortion Industry Seeks to Discredit Adoption

The Washington Times (WT) wrote a fascinating two-part story on the status of adoption in the United States. Today we take a look at part 1. The series begins by looking at the falling number of infant adoptions. In fact, according to the WT, only one percent of all pregnancies out of marriage lead to an adoption. Meanwhile, a new report shows that there are 10 million American couples looking to adopt. Why the discrepancy?

One reason is abortion. Since 1973, the percentage of unwed pregnant women who seek abortion has skyrocketed to 35 percent. We live in a culture now that encourages women to "get rid" of their problems and seek "quick" solutions. For the millions of post-abortive women, however, these lies have painful, unforeseen consequences. Instead of feeling "relief" like the abortion industry would have them think, many women are still suffering from guilt, depression and trauma decades after an abortion.

But the abortion industry continues to lie, not only about the traumatic experience of abortion, but about adoption as well. The WT spoke with several anti-adoption activists who had this to say:

"No one wants to be an adoptee. No mother who has lost a child [to adoption] fully recovers."

"The adoption system is now virtually a North American phenomena - most other countries realize how barbaric it is toward mothers and children."

 "[Adoption] is an industry [in which] young, unwed (and thus powerless) parents are persuaded, through force,     coercion or outright lies, to transfer parental rights of their children to older, more affluent couples."

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This is an incredible commentary about the similarities between the euthanasia movement of today and the abortion movement of fifty years ago.

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Death Doctors: Like abortion 50 years ago, euthanasia now is poised at the top of a slippery slope

‘Foolproofing Suicide with Euthanasia Test Kits.” The matter-of-fact headline should chill us, especially since it didn’t appear in some fringe publication or advocacy magazine.

It appeared in Time.

“When someone with a terminal illness decides to end his or her life by overdosing on barbiturates, they may hope the drugs will lull them into a peaceful and permanent sleep,” wrote the Time reporter. But if the drugs have expired, or if the dosage is incorrect, “the would-be suicide victim may actually survive,” although possibly with additional complications or in a coma.

Thank heavens (yes, that is sarcasm), an Australian euthanasia advocate, Dr. Philip Nitschke, has come up with a way to avoid that danger. He plans “to sell barbiturate-testing kits to confirm that deadly drug cocktails are, in fact, deadly.” The kits will debut in Britain in May for $50. . .

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The BBC is upset that Britons are being denied the right to practice Nazi-style eugenics.

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Parents 'refused genetic tests' (BBC upset about lack of eugenics in the UK)

Children are being born with severe genetic abnormalities because their parents are being refused funding to screen their embryos, those working in the field have claimed.

Fairer provision of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) - in which embryos can be screened for a particular abnormality - could also mean fewer abortions when problems are picked up further down the line, experts from the Assisted Conception Unit at Guy's Hospital say.

The new, fully integrated IVF and PGD centre in London opens on Thursday and will serve couples from across the UK who want to ensure their baby does not carry a potentially life-threatening inherited condition - from cystic fibrosis to some forms of early onset cancer. . .

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Some folks in Nebraska do not seem at all offended to have an abortionist in their neighborhood, but they are very offended that they are shown images of the carnage.

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Abortion foes' lurid display irks neighbors

City officials and frustrated neighbors are trying to figure out whether a group of abortion opponents is violating Bellevue's new picketing ordinance with its "truth truck."

The truck displays huge, graphic photos of aborted fetuses, and protesters have been repeatedly driving it through the neighborhood of a woman who works at an abortion clinic.

Many residents of the Nob Hill neighborhood near Virginia Avenue and North Fourth Street are fed up with the truck. One lay down in front of the truck this week to prevent it from re-entering the street in front of their houses. He later was arrested.

Larry Donlan, director of Rescue the Heartland, which opposes abortion, said Bellevue residents should expect to see him and other protesters more this spring and summer. The group plans to protest in the neighborhood a couple of times a month for at least an hour. . .

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[wagglebee]

Things continue to get more interested at Notre Dame.

A former Ambassador to the Vatican, Mary Ann Glendon, is refusing an award because of Zero and the thirty pieces of silver that Jenkins sold his soul for won't come close to making up for the over $8 MILLION in donations that have been pulled.

Two threads by topher.

BREAKING: Mary Ann Glendon Refuses Notre Dame Honor over Obama

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Mary Ann Glendon, the former United States ambassador to the Vatican who was set to receive the University of Notre Dame's Laetare Medal at the school's commencement on May 17, has written to University president Fr. John Jenkins saying that she will not attend the ceremony or accept the award after all.

Glendon says her refusal stems from the University's persistence in choosing to honor Obama with an honorary degree, despite U.S. Bishops Conference policy that forbids honoring pro-abortion politicians. . .

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Notre Dame Loses $8.2 Million in Withheld Donations over Obama Scandal

DEARBORN, MI, April 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On the same day that former Vatican ambassador Mary Ann Glendon announced that she has decided to refuse Notre Dame's Laetare Medal due to the university's invitation of Obama to receive an honorary degree at this year's commencement ceremony, a group protesting the decision has announced that the university has also lost millions in donations because of the scandal.

Organizers of ReplaceJenkins.com, an online effort urging alumni and donors to the University of Notre Dame to withhold donations, announced Monday that they have personally confirmed over $8.2 million in withheld donations. The URL of the website - ReplaceJenkins.com - is a reference to the main demand of the group - that Notre Dame president Fr. John Jenkins, who has firmly stood by the university's decision to honor Obama, be replaced with someone who will uphold the Catholic identity of the university.

The website has received over 900 pledges from alumni and donors promising to withhold future donations. Several of the largest gifts include estate bequests to the University that have been removed from donors' wills. . .

"We will not be silent.
We are your bad conscience.
The White Rose will give you no rest."