Posted on 09/02/2009 3:23:29 AM PDT by Scanian
Like a big lump of clay, Teddy Kennedy is being worked and reworked into an immortal. The mainstream media and other liberal apologists are seeing to the handiwork. They even want us to believe that Kennedy was squared with his Catholicism. But how could he be? He was unapologetically pro-abortion.
Time magazine gave it go, though. It published an article last week about Kennedy's "quiet Catholic faith." For a man so vocal about many things, he certainly did keep quiet about his faith. And with good reason. Egregious apostasy was Teddy's way.
On every major abortion vote, the late Senator walked lockstep with NARL Pro-Choice America. Here's the checklist:
No on defining an unborn child as eligible for SCHIP;
No on prohibiting minors to cross state lines for abortion;
No on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions;
No on criminal penalties for harming unborn fetus during other crime;
No on banning partial birth abortions except for maternal life;
No on maintaining ban on military base abortions;
No on banning human cloning;
Yes on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines
The sanctity of innocent human life -- the life of the unborn -- is a bedrock principle of Roman Catholicism. It's nonnegotiable. The Catechism of the Catholic Church reads, in part:
(2271) "Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law...Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes. [Italics added]
Not misdemeanors but abominable crimes, reads the Catechism. Abortion is not a gray area that leaves room for discretion and choice.
Having grown up in the church, and raised by a devout mother (Rose), Kennedy was steeped in the teachings and strictures of Catholicism. His embracing abortion was a deliberate, conscious decision to turn his back on church teachings
So Teddy was a ‘closet’ Catholic? Get outta heah!
Every bit of his atrocious history is true, but if Kennedy had a deathbed confession, he undoubtedly said he was remorseful for everything and received complete absolution. That’s the mercy and grace of God. He’ll still have to stand before his Maker and explain years of downright evil and will probably be in Purgatory for a very long time. (It’d be nice to spare a thought for the most abandoned souls in Purgatory, who have no one to pray for them. You never know where you’ll end up and we need all the friends we can get.)
What?
Speak up, you're too quiet.
What?
WHAT?
Hey, where'd Ted go?
Would believe Teddy SAID it, the problem is that you have to actually BE remorseful.
Somebody said years ago: Ted Kennedy’s faith is so personal, he won’t even impose it on himself.
He gave sufficient signs of repentance to satisfy Canon Law—i.e., he basically had to be given a Catholic funeral because there was a priest around the compound.
But the Kennedy family have ALWAYS had toady priests hanging around, including many priests who were THEMSELVES known to be pro-abortion, like Robert Drinan, the pro-abortion Jesuit Congressman.
There was no communication from Kennedy to the outside world that gave any hint of repentance for his support for mass murder. The world is perfectly justified in assuming that Kennedy died unrepentant.
Of course, one must pray for the dead, including Kennedy.
But it is sloppy romanticism to suppose that just because a priest was around, Kennedy made a sincere or complete confession.
There is a lesson to be learned: Those who live a life of obstinate wickedness, perhaps imagining a last-minute confession, can find themselves literally incapable of repentance, DESPITE the presence of the EXTERNAL conditions for forgiveness—such as the presence of a priest. Kennedy’s pathetic, self-righteous letter to the Pope indicates just the kind of derangement traditionally associated with the reprobated.
Frightening. Those who have ears to hear...
The mire of the dead squish through Satan's toes.
It was *so* quiet that the only ones to hear it were those having auditory hallucinations.
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