Terri Schiavo's parents meet Vatican official, thank him for support

Published: 2005-05-17

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The parents of the late Terri Schindler Schiavo visited a top Vatican official to thank him for his defense of their daughter's right to life. Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, received Bob and Mary Schindler, parents of the 41-year-old Florida woman who died March 31, nearly two weeks after a court ordered her feeding tube to be disconnected. Schiavo had been in what doctors defined as a persistent vegetative state since 1990. At his May 17 meeting with the Schindlers, Cardinal Martino reiterated his condemnation of "the killing of this woman in one of the most inhumane and cruel ways, through hunger and thirst," according to a written statement released by the council.

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