Priest blocked from giving final communion

From: Sunday Gazette-Mail | Date: October 19, 2003| Author: The Associated Press | Copyright information

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - The Roman Catholic priest of a brain- damaged woman whose feeding tube was removed this week tried to give her a final communion Saturday but was refused entry by police officers guarding the entrance to the hospice.

Bob and Mary Schindler, the parents of Terri Schiavo, were joined by Monsignor Thaddeus Malinowski when they told officers they wanted to administer the Catholic rite of Viaticum, the last communion for a Catholic before death.

Police officers ...

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