ZENIT News Agency: Terri Schiavo's Parents Thank Vatican

People in high places haven't forgotten:

ROME, MAY 17, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Bob and Mary Schindler, parents of Terri Schiavo -- the American woman whose death was induced by depriving her of food and water -- visited the Vatican to say thank you.

Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace council, received the two today, who thanked the cardinal for mobilizing forces in an attempt to save their daughter's life, "practically condemned to death by United States courts at the request of the woman's husband, Michael Schiavo," explained a press statement published by the council.

The cardinal expressed "his sympathy for the woman's murder by one of the most inhuman and cruel forms, hunger and thirst," said the statement.

Also present were promoters of the newly created association "Missionaries of the Gospel of Life," founded by Father Frank Pavone, who traveled to Rome to present the statutes of the association to the Holy See.

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Terri Schiavo's parents will attend Pope Benedict XVI's general audience on Wednesday.