For further updates on Terri Schiavo...

...go to Thrown Back, the blog of Fr. Rob Johansen. Fr. Johansen is a Catholic priest who is in Florida right now helping to minister to Terri's family. There's a lot of interesting information and insights...just start at the top and scroll down. Here is his first post after arriving in Florida. In that post he describes the Schindlers, who are not the pathetic fanatics that the media would have you think they are. He also talks about how the 81-year-old priest who has been allowed to see Terri was threatened with arrest if he even attempted to give her the sacraments of her church. Appalling.

And as an aside, I want to talk about religious belief her for a bit. While I'm not Catholic, I admire the principled stand that the Catholic bloggers have taken on this issue. I'm happy to see that Protestants and Catholics are putting aside differences and praying together about this. I may upset some people when I say this, but when it comes to orthodox Christianity, I'm an ecumenist at heart. After all, don't we all have the most important things in common? Why not work together and pray together? I'm not trying to gloss over the differences. I'm just saying that I think it's a good thing when we quit arguing, put those differences aside for a while, and unite for a common cause.