Kennedy Priest: He Wanted To Go

WCVBTV ^ | August 26, 2009 | M.R.F. Buckley,

[tet68]

He was ready to go, and we were ready for him to go...
I don’t think I’ve seen such blather in all my life!

[tet68]

BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy died in peace with his whole family and their lawyers, praying around him.

[HighlyOpinionated]

How can you say all that? God doesn’t work that way. You might not accept a deathbed confession, but how can you tell us God would not accept a death bed conversion? How can you make God into someone so small minded?

For many hundreds of years, Christians weren’t baptized until they made their death-bed conversions. It was considered the norm. A person would live an irrascable life and then hope that he knew when he was going to die so he could ask for a Priest to come and give him “last rites” which included a baptism. Men who were going off to war would confess their sins to a priest, get baptized and last rights before they left for war . . . that’s why so many castles had their own Priest on staff.

Someone whether Church or Laymen I know not, decided that baptism should be done as soon as a child was born and that would preclude the fear of not having a Priest around when a person died. And a tradition was born (and baptized.)

When a Catholic dies, the public thinks they have all the “should do’s” and the right to tell the well established and longest Christian faith extant how to act and what to say. This is a time for learning not a time for casting stones.

Ecclesiastes 3
A Time for Everything
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboreth?
10 ¶ I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.
14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

[rollo tomasi]

"Then they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done."

"...Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD among us? No disaster will come upon us."

Micah fits wonderfully in today's society concerning corrupt leaders and Priest. By the way, if a leader spiritually and or politically wants to know what is coming on their judgment day they better have Micah memorized, especially if they call good, evil and evil, good. Judgment is harsher on the leaders for good reason, especially confessed individuals who say they worship God and shun the Truth during their days of leading.

Don't know where Ted is but since he was a public figure and created all sorts of havoc through his power, I hope he denounced all the wicked deeds to future generations through some form of communication. After all, it would be an honest and proper Confession/Repentance (If his "Priest" had any inclination at all).

[HighlyOpinionated]

WHY do so many people take this out of context?

This judgment thing has more to do with forgiveness and atonement for the things someone has done to you personally, like steal your car, rape your daughter, murder your son.

"Do not judge, and you will not be judged; because the judgements you give are the judgements you will get, and the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given." (Mt.7:1-2).

So you're willing to Let God be the Judge of Teddy Kennedy's Life, then?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Judgement Day

Kennedy: “I guess you heard my requests for forgiveness?”

God: “yeah, nice try.”

[Nathan Zachary]

"Because it is a major prop and aid to one of the fundamental maladies affecting human society in the current age: Soft, cowardly non-judgmentalism.

So true.

How in the world do these cowardly non judgmental "Christians" ever hope to follow God's commandments to fight evil, and establish dominance of his word over it, when they refuse to call anything evil for fear of judging it, and "turning the other cheek" if it fights back and lands the first blow?

Sheesh.

[mad_as_he$$]

So 0 was near his Grandma just before she died and near Teddy just before he died. Just saying.

[Nathan Zachary]

"So you're willing to Let God be the Judge of Teddy Kennedy's Life, then?"

No, God will judge the final destination of his soul. Teddy's flesh is dead. No doubt his soul has met the second death as well.

We can only speak as to the kind of person he was at this point. That isn't Judging him and deciding his fate, or handing out some kind of punishment for wrongdoings.

[Lazamataz]

You have got to be f***ing kidding me.

This stuff reads like ScrappleFace.

[fatboy]

You may believe what ever you like but that doesn’t make it true. Just because you can’t read, don’t expect me to excuse you because I will not.

The truth of the matter is that unless we see some crumb of evidence that the swimmer confessed his many public sins and repented then guess what, pitch fork time for Ted. And the Cardnals and Bishops fighting amongst themselves to sprinkle holy water on the casket have no credability and no morals. And from the looks of it, neither do you but I hope I’m wrong.

[utahagen]

Another dopey sycophantic priest on the Kennedy payroll. (I'm a practicing Catholic and I certainly don't begrudge Ted Kennedy the ministrations of a priest. However, the priest shouldn't have blabbed to the press about Ted's religiosity.)

[utahagen]

I think Ted Kennedy was probably sincerely repentant for his sins, and I wish him a speedy passage to Heaven. However, this priest should NOT have commented at all. To have a Catholic priest gushing publicly about how religious an ardently pro-abortion was is scandalous and offensive. The priest should have given Kennedy Last Rites and kept his mouth shut.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"the world doesn't know that part of the senator at all,"

He did his best to keep his attachment to the Catholic faith from us, that's for sure.

[~Vor~]

""He was never defeatist. He never was petty ... He was never small," Biden said. "And in the process of his doing, he made everyone he worked with bigger. Both his adversaries and his allies."

Hmmm...I thought Biden served on the confirmation committee hearings for Clarence Thomas along with Ted...guess he forgot about Ted's remarks during that liberal feed fest...

[Coleus]

bye bye

[m4629]

I am not quite convinced Teddy had repented, since he held his pro-abort position even to his death without publicly renouncing what he had done.

All I could think of is the opportunity he had wasted to teach others before leaving this earth. The song “house of the rising sun” by Animals comes to mind ... “mother, tell your children, not to do what I have done.”

Teddy had an obligation to confess publicly because of his position, in addition to private confession, to redeem himself. He was keenly aware that doing nothing would mean he wanted others to honor his legacy as a pro-abortion catholic and for that, it cannot be an act of repentance.

The “Kennedy priest”, I wonder if the same priest had given Teddy communion time and again while an unrepentent pro-abort politician. If so, I agree this priest should shut up instead.

[Mila]

"Guess you never heard of the good thief.

I have.

"Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." He replied to him, "Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise."