The Eucharist

Parents want Terri to receive Communion

By MITCH STACY
Associated Press
Pinellas Park, Fla. (AP) - After another round of losses in the courts, Terri Schiavo's parents kept watch over their dying daughter Saturday, seeking permission to give her Easter Communion as their attorneys acknowledged that the fight to reconnect the brain-damaged woman's feeding tube was nearing an end...

Paul O'Donnell, a Roman Catholic Franciscan monk, said the family was urging Schiavo's husband to allow his wife to receive the sacrament of Communion at sundown Saturday, when Catholics begin celebrating their holiest feast of the year. Schiavo, who cannot swallow, would have a minuscule piece of bread and a drop of wine placed in her mouth...

Schiavo was raised in the Roman Catholic Church, and her parents have made heavy use of her faith as the basis for the numerous appeals to reinsert the feeding tube that was removed more than a week ago.

The Schindlers have argued, for instance, that she should be spared based on statements by Pope John Paul II that people in vegetative states have a right to nutrition and hydration. They say Schiavo would have obeyed the pope and would not choose to have her tube removed. That argument was rebuffed in the state courts.
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Mitch Stacy appears to be accusing the Schindlers of exploiting Catholicism to achieve victories in court.

Did this "journalist" stop to think that their pleas to allow Terri to pratice her faith are sincere? With death imminent, how can anyone question, let alone deny, the simple request for Terri to receive Communion on Easter?

Demonizing the Schindlers in this way is disgusting, but not surprising coming from an AP writer.