Sancta Theresa Schiavo, ora pro nobis

On the anniversary of That Unpleasantness in Florida, let me make a prediction:

Terri Schiavo will eventually be made a saint.

I am not arguing that she is deserving of sainthood; it's hard to argue that she lived a life of holiness when basically all she could do was lie there and take what the world gave her. On the other hand, when the most serious sin she gave evidence of is coveting Jello, it's hard to argue that she WASN'T holy. And there was definitely suffering and martyrdom.

If, as I suspect, she served as enough of a catalyst in the euthanasia debate, somebody will ask for her intercession, and a miracle will happen. I expect this by 2050.

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