Austin Ruse

Austin Ruse is president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute(C-FAM). He is a Knight in the Order of Malta and in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher and is co-founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.

Articles by Austin Ruse

Randall Terry Is Not the Spokesman for Catholic Orthodoxy

Mar 30, 2009 / 00:00 am

Someone close to the fight for Terry Schiavo’s life says that up to a certain point the effort to save her life was getting traction and gaining ground. The effort had managed for a time to branch out from a left-right divide to become an issue of human rights. Even Jesse Jackson was on her side. Overnight everything changed. According to my source, it all changed when Randal Terry parachuted into Florida and started issuing press releases. The tenor changed and so did the press coverage. The fight for Schiavo’s life became a fight over the religious right.