Today, Monday March 31, 2025, Monday in the Fourth Week of Lent, marks the twentieth anniversary of the end of thirteen day ordeal imposed by Judge George Greer to his judicial power imposed by his court-ordered execution of Mrs. Theresa Marie Schindler-Schiavo, a brain-damaged human being who was no closer to death than anyone of us, by the cruel process of starvation and dehydration.
As one who wrote extensively on the killing of this innocent human being and who spoke at a rally directly across from the hospice where her death sentence would start be carried out six days later, it is saddening--so very saddening--to have reviewed the facts of Mrs. Schiavo's case in this retrospective that was written in 2010 and revised both ten years ago and in various again now. It is also very sad to have that Catholics have to be reminded of the simple moral truth that no one may undertake any action that has as its only direct end the death of an innocent human being.
The removal of the provision of food and water from a living human being can result in only one possible end, the death of that person, something that can never be willed for one who is innocent.
Why is it so difficult to recognize that the two of the Corporal Works of Mercy are to "feed the hungry" and to "give drink to the thirsty"?
Dr. Paul Byrne's Medical Decisions' Protection Document can be found in Appendix B of this retrospetctive. It will help to protect patients from the modern Aztecs, ghouls, and "quality of life" vampires in circumstancs such as Terri Schiavo's and, of course, other circumstances such as being declared "brain death" or deemed "ready" to dispatached from life "compassionately" in hospice care. Please review, print out and execute the document and its addenedum in Appendix C if you do not have a copy already.
Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.
Eternal rest grant unto the soul of Mrs. Theresa Marie Schindler-Schiavo, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul and all of the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Finally, I am still working on the study that is being written with great care and requires some amount of transcription to buttress various points made by Dom Prosper Gueranger in his defense of The Mystical City of God in twenty-eight articles published in the French journal, L'Univers, between May 23, 1858, and November 7, 1859. Dom Prosper Gueranger based his defense on a personal review of the five hundred ten page Vatican file on the Cause for the Beatification of the Venerable Mary of Jesus of Agreda. The files were examined again by Father Peter Mary Rookey, OSM, in the archives of the Congregation of the Rites in 1957, confirming Dom Prosper Gueranger's findings of a century before. How anyone can dobut Dom Prosper Gueranger's careful scholarship and his eloquent defense of The Mystical City of God and then discount the confirmation a century later of the Abbot of Solesmes's findings is unfathomable, but there are those who continue to do so.
This is all relevant now as Mr. Timothy A. Duff, who spent twenty years periodically working on a correct English translation of The Mystical City of God (see New English Edition of The Mystical City of God), ran the original articles, published in the French language, of course, through a Deepl.com translation, which was then reviewed by a French-speaking seminarian in Canada.
The purpose of my own study is to comment on selected passages found in Dom Prosper Gueranger's articles and to once again to refute the claim that The Mystical City of God has been condemned by the authority of the Catholic Church. This is not so. Jansenists in at the Sorbonne in 1696 did this, and they did this principally to avoid offending Protestants and because they, themselves, Jansenists, disfavored Marian devotion in general and the elucidation of the Mother of God's sublime privileges in The Mystical City of God.
Thus, I must take time with the work I am doing. In the meantine, though, I will be republishing a few articles that I believe to be of contemporary interest on each of the next seveal days.
Oh, remember also that I still have a current Go Fund Me Appeal for a Used Car was posted seventeen days ago.
Thank you.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.