Cardinal Burke to celebrate Mass for Terri Schiavo to commemorate 20th anniversary of her death
On Saturday, March 22, Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a Holy Mass in remembrance of Terri Schiavo, whose tragic death sparked nationwide debate on the rights of patients to receive basic care.
Cardinal Burke at the anniversary Mass, Dec 2024.©@creativeoftheimmaculata/@timothyjosephthompson
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On March 22, 2025, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke is offering Holy Mass in commemoration of Terri Schindler Schiavo, whose nutrition and hydration was removed for eugenic reasons in the United States of America two decades ago. Providentially, March 22 is also the anniversary of the death (in 1946) of Clemems August Graf von Galen, German bishop during the second World War, whose thunderous denunciations of the National Socialist T-4 euthanasia program merited him the informal title, the "Lion on Munster."
During the summer of his famous homilies--the summer of 1941--Father Maximilian Kolbe, the Hero of Auschwitz, would offer his life in exchange for that of a fellow prisoner, suffering starvation and dehydration as Terri did before being put definitively to death by injection. As we remember Terri this Saturday and pray for the repose of her soul, let us also call to mind the diabolically anti-Catholic worldview animating eugenics then and now--a worldview which survived the cessation of mid-twentieth century military conflict by morphing into the organization currently known as "Planned Parenthood." Let us follow the example of Saint Maximilian in consecrating ourselves totally to Mary, the Immaculate Conception, realizing that there is no hope for the pro-life movement or for human flourishing, individually or collectively, in stopping short.
Blessed von Galen and Saint Maximilian, orate pro nobis
Also, The Catholic Monitor wants to remind Governor DeSantis, March 31, 2025, marks the twentieth anniversary of the imposed death by starvation and dehydration of an innocent and disabled woman, Terri Schindler Schiavo. The State of Florida ultimately forced medical professionals, willing or otherwise, to take her life for eugenic and economic reasons, due to a ruling in favor of her predatory and self-seeking husband and against her caring family members who stood ready to assume all responsibility for her continued care, financial and otherwise. The governor at the time, Jeb Bush, washed his hands of the matter, as did his brother in the White House, "George W."
In the meanwhile a divided world was also looking on while the Pope, John Paul II, fought valiantly for his life--valiantly but in vain, since he died days after Terri, whose passing took place on Easter Sunday of that year. Together they gave witness to the reality that suffering united to the Cross of Christ is of inestimable value, and that every human life made in the image and likeness of God, regardless of present condition, is worth infinitely more than the entirety of "our common home" itself.
Two decades later, as Catholics and as Americans of good will, we are wondering what would have happened if someone like you had been Florida's Governor at the time, under a President more like Donald J. Trump. We are wondering if anyone has noticed that, right now, the world is again watching as a Pope struggles to survive--a Pope who is put on mechanical ventilation if necessary, even though the Church does not morally mandate the use of "extraordinary means" when the end of life may be near. We are wondering why no one is demanding to be told--as was asked in Terri's case, and answered by the State of Florida in the negative--whether Jorge Bergoglio's life is worth the effort and expense involved in salvaging it. And not only Terri, either, but also the countless helpless individuals who are even now being denied even the ordinary care which their vaunted dignity would seem to require--individuals including young Alfie Evans, on whose behalf Pope Francis personally and explicitly declined to intervene.
Would you, Governor DeSantis, as a Catholic in public life, have called upon Terri's local ordinary not to leave the state and go mysteriously silent, ordering his diocesan priests not to protest on behalf of her protection? In fact, the one priest who was permitted to be there for her and for the whole Schindler family--Frank Pavone--has been, under Pope Francis, defrocked.
Would you, in Terri's case, have championed American founding principles to the extent that they align with Divine and natural law, as we saw you do during the medical abuses of the COVID-10 crisis? Or would you, too, have acquiesced to the division of humanity into "worthy" and "unworthy" halves, ideologically extending the barbed wire of the Second World War across your state, our nation, and the globe itself?
No one, Governor or otherwise, can bring Terri back. Only you, however, on this twentieth anniversary of her eugenic execution, can speak out publicly and effectively against what your state did to her. Will you, even now, demand an investigation into how she became physically impaired in the first place, resolving the many open questions raised by Mark Fuhrman at the time? Will you proclaim a day of remembrance in Terri's honor, to be observed by the State of Florida for as long as it shall endure? Will you invite your fellow Catholic in public life--Vice President J. D. Vance--to join you especially in bringing to this travesty the justice you still may? "The light shines on in the darkness--a darkness that did not overcome it" (Jn. 1:0).
Note: This post is written by a Catholic Monitor contributor.
Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.
Francis Notes:
– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:
“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)
Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
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– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html
– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html
– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html
– LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:
The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”
– On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:
“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”
– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:
“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.
Election Notes:
– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]
– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html
– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1
– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020:
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1
What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1]
Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.
Pray an Our Father now for America.
Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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