bucy wrote:
] ] Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged Florida woman
] ] who became the subject of an intense legal and political
] ] battle that drew responses from the White House to the
] ] Halls of Congress to the Vatican, died today, 13 days
] ] after her feeding tube was removed on the order of a
] ] state court judge.

I've got no trouble with a Pope on a feeding tube. Now, a Pope without brain activity, that'd be another story!

I'm curious now though, what kind of precedent exists... Have there been previous Popes who were bedridden with a serious illness for a long period of time? Were they allowed to keep, um, Pope-ing? I really have no idea what the rules are.

RE: Schiavo Dies Nearly Two Weeks After Removal of Feeding Tube