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-----Original Message----- From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 8:49 AM To: Florida_Support Subject: [florida_support] FW: + (a) Bishop Lynch statement; (b) report on his Earthquake ex perience Importance: High With all due respect to the Bishop, it is Michael Schiavo, his Attorney Felos and Judge Greer who are legally responsible for torturing Mrs. Schiavo to death in violation of the Convention against Torture, the US Anti-Torture Statute, the Torture Victim Protection Act, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Francis A. Boyle Professor of Law Board of Directors,Amnesty International USA (1988-92) Francis A. Boyle Law Building 504 E. 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Lynch, head of Diocese of St. Petersburg -- A printed version of this statement was picked up after Mass by my wife, Maggie Hall (with three of our 4 kids along), at St. Cecelia Catholic Church, Clearwater, Florida, on March 20, 2005, Palm Sunday -- two days after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed. Last week Bishop Lynch left for Indonesia as part of a tsunami aid delegation and has stayed overseas during the rising Right-to-Life crisis. He's to return to St. Petersburg this Sunday, April 3. + Kev + Px = + = ================================= = + = -- "STATEMENT OF BISHOP ROBERT N. LYNCH: The bishops of Florida have once again addressed the issue of the withdrawal of the artificial feeding tube from Terri Schiavo. As in the past, I join them in addressing this complex and tragic situation. As the local bishop and pastor for all the family parties involved, I would like to add the following. At the end of the day (the judicial, legislative days) the decision to remove Terri's artificial feeding tube will be that of her husband, Michael. It is he who will give the order, not the courts and certainly [not] the governor or legislature or the medical personnel surrounding and caring for Terri. In other words, as I have said from the beginning of this sad situation, the decision will be made within a family. A significant part of that family feels they are outside of the decision-making process and they are in great pain and suffering mightily. I urge and pray that before the finality, one last effort be made for mediation. Normally, at the end of life, families of the person in extremis agree that it is time to allow the Lord to call a loved one to Himself, feeling that they have done all they possibly might to provide alternatives to death, every possible treatment protocol which might be helpful has been attempted. There is a peace. This will not happen in this instance because of the seeming intractability of both sides. I beg and pray that both sides might step back a little and allow some mediation in these final hours. The legacy of Terri's situation should not be that of those who love her the most, loathing the actions of one another, but of a heroic moment of concern for the feelings of each other, guided by moral and ethical considerations, with a single focus of achieving the best result for Terri. I ask the Catholics of the Diocese of St. Petersburg in the waning days of Lent to pray hard to the "Author of All Life" for Terri and for her family." = + = ==================================== ==================================== = + = (b) From yesterday: ... http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/30/Tampabay/On_aid_mission__bay_a.shtml St. Petersburg Times On aid mission, bay area's bishop feels quake The prelate was awakened in Indonesia by a temblor that has killed hundreds. By WAVENEY ANN MOORE, Times Staff Writer Published March 30, 2005 ST. PETERSBURG - The leader of Tampa Bay area Catholics was among the thousands jolted awake Monday by a magnitude 8.7 earthquake that rocked Indonesia. "There was a loud groaning coming from the building and I didn't know whether I should wait it out in the room or find the emergency exit," said Bishop Robert N. Lynch, head of the Diocese of St. Petersburg, who was in Indonesia as part of a delegation assessing Catholic aid in areas devastated by December's tsunami. "It lasted for about two minutes, but it seemed like an eternity. I knew it was a big one." Lynch was in a hotel in Medan, a city on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, about 200 miles from the epicenter, when the quake struck. "It happened at 11:11 Indonesia time. I had already gone to bed and was sound asleep and felt my bed moving side to side and knew they were having another earthquake," said Lynch, speaking by telephone from his hotel in Chennai, India, where he had just arrived early this morning. Lynch remained in his fourth-floor room until the building stopped shaking and headed downstairs and to the street through the darkness. In an e-mail, he said he could hear screams from the streets during the quake. "Words cannot capture the thoughts one has when the whole building you are in seems so flexible," he wrote. "Without exaggeration, from the fourth floor of the hotel, it seemed the whole building would collapse." Back home in St. Petersburg, the bishop's staff was concerned. "We started calling as soon as we started seeing it on CNN," said Vicki Wells Bedard, spokeswoman for the diocese. They did not hear from Lynch, whose cell phone did not work in Indonesia, until his e-mail the next day. Lynch is chairman of the board of Catholic Relief Services, the international disaster relief organization of Catholic bishops in the United States. Catholic Relief Services has committed $150-million to tsunami relief and reconstruction, said Cecile Sorra, the agency's communications associate for Asia and the Middle East. The St. Petersburg Diocese, which serves 398,702 Catholics in Pinellas, Hillsborough, Citrus, Hernando and Pasco counties, contributed nearly $1-million to the cause. Lynch said the agency has expanded its aid to include Indonesia's Nias Island, the area most affected by Monday's earthquake. "We're sending a team of doctors and nurses and supplies to the island tomorrow," Lynch said today, adding that severe thunderstorms had delayed an earlier response. The bishop said he had been told that 60 to 70 percent of the buildings on the island had been destroyed. Until Monday's earthquake, relief efforts in Indonesia had been proceeding well, Lynch said. "The people are not dying of malnutrition or disease or improper sanitation. Reconstruction efforts were well on the way," he said. Lynch, who arrived in Indonesia last week, will spend the rest of his trip in India as planned and return to the United States Sunday. (c) Copyright 2003 St. Petersburg Times. All rights reserved. = + = ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give underprivileged students the materials they need to learn. Bring education to life by funding a specific classroom project. http://us.click.yahoo.com/FHLuJD/_WnJAA/cUmLAA/7O4qlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/florida_support/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: florida_support-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
