The Schindlers Request for Protesters to Go Home

(CNN)-- The Florida Supreme Court dismissed -- for the second time in a week -- a bid by Terri Schiavo's parents to have their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube reconnected.

The state's highest court rejected an emergency petition Saturday night, saying it had no jurisdiction. On Thursday, the court had refused to hear the case.

A family spokesman said her parents are grief-stricken that she is dying.

...After the latest legal defeat, the family's spiritual adviser said the Schindlers wanted those keeping vigil outside their daughter's hospice to go home, be with their families and celebrate Easter.

Brother Paul O'Donnell, a Franciscan monk, also said the Schindler family is no longer going to grant interviews to the media. And he urged Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to take Schiavo into protective custody.

Bush has said he has done everything possible within his authority to help the family.


(REUTERS)--"The family would request that everyone go home, be with your children, hold them close and share every moment you have with them," said Brother Paul O'Donnell, a Franciscan monk who is a spiritual adviser to the Schindlers.
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By requesting that protesters return to their families to celebrate Easter, the Schindlers once again display the remarkable grace with which they live out their faith.