Monday, March 27, 2006

An Open Letter to Michael Schiavo

Thank God Fr. Pavone has issued this letter. As I listened to the Schindlers on Catholic Radio Friday, I was again reminded of the pain they endured as they witnessed their daughter being murdered at the hands of the State. And last night the horror of all of this comes back as Michael Schiavo retells his pathetic story on NBC TV last night as he promotes his new book. Truly demonic!

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, and an eyewitness to Terri Schiavo’s final hours, released the following open letter to Michael Schiavo tonight. Fr. Pavone will read it to a worldwide audience on an internationally broadcast religious service on Sunday morning, March 26.

A year ago this week, I stood by the bedside of the woman you married and promised to love in good times and bad, in sickness and health. She was enduring a very bad time, because she hadn’t been given food or drink in nearly two weeks. And you were the one insisting that she continue to be deprived of food and water, right up to her death. I watched her face for hours on end, right up to moments before her last breath. Her death was not peaceful, nor was it beautiful. If you saw her too, and noticed what her eyes were doing, you know that to describe her last agony as peaceful is a lie.
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