Terri Schiavo, RIP

I am sure that it is, in some sense, a relief to everyone involved that all of the arguing over Terri Schiavo should now cease. It was a case made more difficult than it should have been because of the personalities involved, and one that could have had a much quieter, more peaceful resolution but for, for whatever reasons, the iron will of Michael Schiavo. Having acted on principle to ensure what he claims was his wife's wish not to be kept alive with tubes, he now looks to all the world a cad, but a cad nonetheless free to get on with his life. Truly, may God bless all of Terri's family and give them the comfort of knowing that her condition is no longer subject to debate.

In one of life's remarkable ironies, Pope John Paul II -- one of the strongest voices for the culture of life in a generation that now champions a right to die and exhibits a culture of death -- has been given the last rites of the Catholic Church on the same day that Terri Schiavo left this earth. God bless this wonderful man who has served the Lord so faithfully.