I hate what that man and most of his family have done to my Country. Whatever happened on his deathbed or during his private confessions is none of my business. I don’t consider him a Catholic and hate that this family got away with so much and with the support of some priests and Bishops.
But he’s a public figure and claims he’s a Catholic so of course the Catholic Church is going to be slammed. Especially by non Catholics who just like to trash and by former Catholics who have their own issues.
There are those of us who hate that the Kennedy family, or cetain members, claim to be Catholic when everything they stand for is directly against Church teachings. Hmmm, maybe one day we’ll all be self righteous about Jews or some Protestant Demonination that some public official belongs to.
“maybe one day we’ll all be self righteous about Jews or some Protestant Demonination that some public official belongs to.”
Unfortunately, they won’t be held to the same standards.
Devout Catholics will have to do a penance of listening to the non-Catholics and ex-Catholics shaking their fingers at them and agitating the issue ~ acting all self-righteous and superior about their claims to being more pro-life than others and taking broadsides at decent practicing, pro-life Catholic Christians.
That’s kind of childish, and as I had predicted in my original post.