Look at the Kennedys, and they are Catholic royalty, treated as America’s first family by the Catholic church.
Pelosi and most of the Catholic politicians that we can name, are just following in the Kennedy tradition, that paid off so well for them within their church.
Ted went out in full Catholic glory, even being blessed by his Pope in a letter.
“Ted went out in full Catholic glory, even being blessed by his Pope in a letter.”
Are you saying that it was impossible for Ted Kennedy to repent on his deathbed and gain absolution?
Mind you for Catholics, purgatorial cleansing is not ended by absolution. Sin and its effects are very real, but that is not what I’m asking you to clarify.
Are you willing to say catagorically that Ted Kennedy had no repentence at his death? Are you willing to make that judgment?
“even being blessed by his Pope in a letter.”
that is nonsense. It was a lie to deceive people that TED received a letter from the Pope. He most definitely did not.
this amounts to a form letter from a Vatican bureaucrat. Not even a word from the Pope. You could call it a diss.
McCarrick, by reading it and deceptively implying that the pope replied ... disgraceful.
“McCarrick said a reply from the Vatican came two weeks later. He read excerpts aloud.
The Holy Father has read the letter which you entrusted to President Obama, who kindly presented it to him during their recent meeting. He was saddened to know of your illness, and asked me to assure you of his concern and his spirtual closeness. He is particularly grateful for your promise of prayers for him and for the needs of our universal church.
His Holiness prays that in the days ahead you may be sustained in faith and hope, and granted the precious grace of joyful surrender to the will of God, our merciful father. He invokes upon you the consolation and peace promised by the risen savior to all who share in his sufferings and trust in his promise of eternal life.
Commending you and the members of your family to the loving intervention of the blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Father cordially imparts his Apostolic blessing as a pledge of wisdom, comfort and strength in the Lord. “
“Here in Rome, Ted Kennedy is nobody. He’s a legend with his own constituency,” says the Vatican official.
One veteran official at the Vatican, of U.S. nationality, expressed the view of many conservatives about the Kennedy clan’s rapport with the Catholic Church: “Why would he even write a letter to the Pope? The Kennedys have always been defiantly in opposition to the Roman Catholic magisterium.”
The renowned and trusted EWTN broadcaster clearly laid the responsibility of this corrupting example not so much with Kennedy as with the prelates who orchestrated the showcase funeral. Said Arroyo: “As a final desperate attempt to stamp the imprimatur of the Pope upon the funereal proceedings, Cardinal McCarrick read what he called the ‘Pope’s response’ to Senator Kennedy. Actually it was a note, very likely from the Secretariat of State. This is the sort of thing any member of laity receives when they send a prayer request or a Christmas card to the Pope. Cardinal McCarrick made it seem as if it had the weight of a new encyclical.”
Send a note this Dec with a Christmas card and, you too, can get an historic note from the pope himself!