Terri Schiavo's parents meet pope at end of his general audience

Published: 2005-05-18

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The parents of the late Terri Schindler Schiavo met briefly with Pope Benedict XVI at the end of his May 18 general audience in St. Peter's Square. Bob and Mary Schindler, parents of the 41-year-old Florida woman who died after a court ordered her feeding tube to be disconnected, shook hands with the pope and presented him with a framed gift featuring two pictures of Schiavo and what appeared to be a poem. The pope exchanged a few words with the couple, and an aide took the gift. At the end of his weekly general audiences, Pope Benedict greets audience members who are seated in two special sections near his chair. The Schindlers were seated along the barricade in the front row of one of the sections.

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