Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Lying Monk: Evil, or Just Deluded?
Later this morning, Mr. Mahoney and Brother Paul O'Donnell, a Franciscan monk who says he is a spiritual adviser to Ms. Schiavo's parents, talked to reporters outside of the hospice in Pinellas Park, where Ms. Schiavo has been living.She is not getting very tired. She is not alert. She does not laugh.
Mr. Mahoney and Brother O'Donnell said they had talked by telephone to her parents, who had visited with her in the last few hours but who were now resting.
"Terri is showing signs of being starved to death," Mr. O'Donnell said they told him. "She is getting very tired. She is still alert, she still laughs. Her skin is beginning to dry.
"Her own mother cannot offer her daughter an ice chip in her mouth to make her comfortable," he said. "Her own mother cannot be at her side without being watched by an armed police officer.""She" cannot be made comfortable, since she does not exist. Her body can be made most comfortable by being allowed to expire.
"Brother" O'Donnell has told lies, and defied the will of God. One presumes he will be punished accordingly.
posted by Blicero : 3/22/2005 02:24:00 PM
