A Church Wedding for Michael Schiavo

Michael Schiavo, who led the battle to starve to death his disabled wife Terri last March, was allowed to marry his long-time girlfriend, who is the mother of Schiavo's two children, in a Catholic Church in Florida. This is a wedding that should not have taken place in a Catholic church. Any bishop worth his mitre would have sent the couple to City Hall. But, as Life Sites reports, the bishop in whose diocese this took place doesn't have a stellar record when it comes to this particular matter:

Speaking at a "Stand Up for Life" rally in South Carolina, [Terri Schiavo's sister] Ms. Vitadamo said if the Florida bishops had stepped forward and denounced what was taking place "there would have been such an enormous outcry of support from parishioners in our diocese and from Catholics around the world that my sister could very well be alive today."

Bishop Robert Lynch of St. Petersburg, Florida, outraged Catholics when he offered his only statement during the 13 days it took Terri to die from dehydration, encouraging her family to reconcile with Michael Schiavo in the name of "peace."

The Catholic Church of Espiritu Santo, where Michael Schiavo's second marriage took place, is in Bishop Lynch's diocese of St. Petersburg.

While the Florida Bishops dismally failed to intervene and speak out in defense of Terri and of the value of all human life, the Vatican issued repeated condemnations of the decision to cause her death.

If Michael Schiavo isn't an unrepentant public sinner, I don't know who is.