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Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 8:37 am
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The celebration of Life which is being offered in the Requiem Mass for Edward Kennedy, with concelebration with His Eminence Cardinal O'Malley and a eulogy from the pulpit of the Basislica by the most anti-life president we have ever had to endure ... gives great scandal and shame to me and to all other Catholics, who believe and adhere to the message of God and fight daily for instatement of the Moral Absolutes -- LIFE and the FULFILLMENT of GOD's Law and God's Laws of Nature in the USA.

Edward Kennedy was a person who spent his political capital in seeing that these laws were stood on their head and inflicted his own lack of morality on the rest of us, from the young days of Chappaquidick to and through the years and years of support for the liberal mantras which believe in the killing of the unborn and the support of those who practice homosexuality and his fighting for laws to uphold these scandalous and evil infections of America.

I feel sullied by the Church's participation in glorifying this man, who stood for all of the UN-Catholic precepts there can be. How terribly tragic that you all participate in this event and become party to his depravation.

May the Holy Innocents (40,000,000 and counting) pray for all of you who are supportive of their murder in your edifying Edward Kennedy.

A quiet and private Mass would have been acceptable and correct ... you cannot excuse your support through your own participation.

May the Holy Spirit Enlighten You.

“A quiet and private Mass would have been acceptable and correct ... you cannot excuse your support through your own participation.”

There would never have been a small and quiet private Mass for the last remaining son of the Kennedy clan. The Catholic Church had to deal with the public mass that would inevitably be held. Also, one doesn’t know what Teddy repented of on his deathbed making such a Mass accceptable to be held.

I feel sorry for the position the Church has been placed in. Do you really think, considering all of the contributions to the Church throughout the years the whole Kennedy clan has made to the Church, as well as all of the sincerely believing members of the Kennedy clan that exist, that the Church would turn its back on the last remaining Kennedy son? You have to be realistic here. The Kennedy’s made the Catholic Church acceptable at a time when it wasn’t politically, at least as to being a President of the U.S. was concerned. It brought the Catholic Church into the mainstream in a primarily, at that time, Protestant country. All Catholics at the time understood this, and most still do.

The Kennedy clan also lived up to that part of the Catholic Church’s mission of helping the poorest in society, and the social causes aspect of the Church. So it was a split bag that came along with the Kennedy family in their view of Catholicism. Plus, the Kennedy’s never practiced that which they were willing to allow to others as a choice, namely the non-birthing of children. That whole family has propagated like rabbits. No abortions in their own families. The Kennedy clan, being very very Irish, also had that whole immigrant underdog mentaility, and scrapping and fighting their way to the top of the heap from the very bottom, by hook or by crook. The pugnacious part of the Irish personality.

So, from my viewpoint, the Catholic Church is dealing as best it can with the hand it was dealt here, and make of it what you will. But I wouldn’t be quite so vicious in your condemnation of the Church here. This is one day in the life of a Church that has existed from the beginning of Christianity itself, today is but a miniscule sliver in the midst of time. What did you really think the Church was going to do here, start up a big controversy of a political nature? That’s not what happens at funerals, especially at an Irish Catholic wake for the last remaining son of Camelot.

I wouldn’t get so bent out of shape about this. Be glad you are a member of a Church that has never changed its policy toward abortion, the practice of homosexuality (even though in the U.S. it let the Church get polluted by too many of them; thank goodness Pope BXVI is purging the Church of them), the belief in marriage as a sacrament, etc. that so many other supposedly Christian churches have dumped on as Christian beliefs. The Catholic Church has its faults, but in the scheme of things, it’s a good Church to be a member of. Admire its good qualities, and work to change the bad ones from within. It’s an exceptional Church with huge history and tradition, the original Christian Church. Savor that.