Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation

Date: 2005-02-24
Cardinal Martino Appeals for Terri Schiavo
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 24, 2005 (Zenit.org).

A Vatican official launched an appeal to save Terri Schiavo, the
brain-damaged Florida woman whose husband wants her off
life-support care. On Wednesday a Florida judge ordered the tube
delivering food and water to Schiavo kept in place another 48 hours.
Pinellas County Circuit Judge George Greer said he needed time to
consider legal challenges raised by the woman's parents, including the
possibility that her husband, Michael Schiavo, was unfit to act as her
guardian. In statements on Vatican Radio, Cardinal Renato Martino,
president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said: "If Mr.
Schiavo succeeds legally in causing the death of his wife, this not only
would be tragic in itself, but would be a grave step toward the legal
approval of euthanasia in the United States." He added: "I would like
to remind everyone in this connection, about all that the Holy Father
has said in past days to the Pontifical Academy for Life, confirming that
the quality of life is not interpreted as economic success, beauty and
physical pleasure, but consists in the supreme dignity of the creature
made in the image and likeness of God. "No one can be the arbiter of
life except God himself."
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