FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jerry Horn, 540-785-4733
Date: June 21, 2005
Priest responds to Schiavo's choice of words
New York City- Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of
Priests for Life, issued the following statement regarding the choice of
words Michael Schiavo used to mark Terri Schindler-Schiavo's headstone.
"Michael said, 'I kept my promise,' and therefore convicts
himself of having killed Terri. Moreover, to say that she "Departed this Earth"
on February 25, 1990 illustrates the dualistic philosophy that Schiavo and his
attorney Mr. Felos have. That statement shows no regard for the fact that a
human person is just as much a body as a soul, and this hyperspiritual way of
thinking justifies all kinds of physical violence.
"Such dualism has been condemned by the Catholic Church as a
heresy. Any Catholic who does not renounce the kind of thinking demonstrated by
Mr. Schiavo has ceased believing as a Catholic."
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic organization dedicated
exclusively to the defense of human life from abortion and euthanasia. For
more information about Priests for Life, please visit
www.priestsforlife.org.
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