Bobby Schindler’s Letter to Florida Bishop: When Bishops Don’t Do Their Job – Innocent People Die Says Bishop’s silence makes him “complicit in my sis

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The Schindler family are good people.

Sometimes silence speaks louder than words, Bobby is 👍
 
Martin Luther King, jr.:
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
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Bishops have the responsibility to speak out for moral behavior of their flock.

When they do not, it is a sin, as by their failure to act, they are leading others into sin.
 
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
  • Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller
 
originally stated by EileenT: determine. I can understand the pain and betrayal the family must have felt at the silence, but he should have kept it a general statement, not made a personal attack
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I would normally side with this statement but the bishop did more than remain silent. He forbade any priest in his diocese to talk about Terri’s plight during their homilies and left the country for a tour of Indonesia as she lay in her final agony for two excruciating weeks. Message after message was issued from the Vatican eloquently defending the dignity of life and yet this bishop, who carries a shepherd’s staff by the way as a symbol of his role and duties, showed absolutely no public interest in this family’s plight. Only a cowardly shepherd would flee and abandon one of his own to a pack of ravenous wolves. God forgive me if my memory is faulty or my judgement rash but this whole episode was a scandalous dereliction of duty. 😦

John the Baptist spoke out to correct Herod and it cost him his head. If one accepts a role in leadership than one’s duty is to lead. At the very least, a bedside visit to Terri would have spoken volumes even if he didn’t want to make a comment in public.
 
Rosalinda said:
I would normally side with this statement but the bishop did more than remain silent. He forbade any priest in his diocese to talk about Terri’s plight during their homilies and left the country for a tour of Indonesia as she lay in her final agony for two excruciating weeks. Message after message was issued from the Vatican eloquently defending the dignity of life and yet this bishop, who carries a shepherd’s staff by the way as a symbol of his role and duties, showed absolutely no public interest in this family’s plight. Only a cowardly shepherd would flee and abandon one of his own to a pack of ravenous wolves. God forgive me if my memory is faulty or my judgement rash but this whole episode was a scandalous dereliction of duty. 😦

John the Baptist spoke out to correct Herod and it cost him his head. If one accepts a role in leadership than one’s duty is to lead. At the very least, a bedside visit to Terri would have spoken volumes even if he didn’t want to make a comment in public.
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Here here. As a parishioner in the St. Petersburg diocese, I concur with the entirety of your post.
 
I am surprised no one has quoted this yet.

Edmund Burke -
“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.”

Or this one:
Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
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Bobby Schindler and the entire Schindler family are heroes of the true faith. Terri was a martyr for the pro-life cause.

Bishop Lynch is not someone that I want to rely on if I have been unjustly condemned to death by a kangaroo court for simply defending my innate rights as a human person.
 
Well said. If we can’t count on our bishops to speak up when something like this happens, when can we count on them? They are supposed to defend life.
 
Sadly, individuals like Terri Schiavo are not as important as the politically correct “homeless”. Often, the rhetoric for these politically-charged statements is nothing more than lip-service and fund-raising for the “Catholic” charities for which bishops front. Besides, who wouldn’t want to be seen in the media sympathizing with a sympathetic, nameless homeless person, not a human “shell” like Terri? Not enough public sympathy for defending a person like her. For what it’s worth, no individual homeless person would likely get this attention either, this is far too personal and may give rise to hidden, un-sympathy-provoking issues like alcoholism, criminal background or mental illness.
No, our Bishops seem to like to keep their hands soft and image clean, but substance suffers by the lack of moral leadership. Good for this family for making this guy break into a sweat by holding him accountable for his cowardice.
 
Matt Abbott wrote an interesting article about Bishop Lynch here at this website:

renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/070330

In the article he quote from a book called: The Rite of Sodomy: Homosexuality and the Roman Catholic Church

as it dealt with Bishop Lynch. In the link to the book it said that Cardinal Spellman had a homosexual relationship with another Bishop. :eek: :eek: :eek:

Does anybody here know if that can be substantiated??
 
Schindler is absolutely correct. He is not judging his salvation which of course only God can do. Schindler is judging the bishop’s actions or lack thereof. These are facts, not conjecture.
The bishop refused to help Terry.
Just as when someone has an abortion, a baby is killed. That is certainly not judging the mother’s salvation to say what she objectively did-let her baby be killed. It is wrong and immoral and a grave sin for a mother to let a baby be killed. Likewise it was wrong for Bishop Lynch to refuse help to Bobby Schindler. As to the gravity of the sin and the salvation of the bishop that only can be known by God.
I am surprized at the relativism which has crept into discussions on a Catholic forum. The morality of an action or inaction can be known or judged.
 
Why has the Vatican not called Bishop Lynch on the carpet for this? If the Vatican does nothing, they are a guilty as he is.
 
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