Senator Edward Kennedy: Resilient? Yes. Devout? Not exactly.

Catholic Exchange ^ | 8/28/2009 | Louie Verrecchio

[Servant of the Cross]

The latest news reports indicate that Senator Edward Kennedy will receive the high honor of being laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery alongside the earthly remains of authentic American heroes who gave their lives in service to their country.

No one in authority asked me if this an appropriate exclamation point to the seventy-seven year statement that is Kennedy’s earthly life, but just in case anyone was wondering; I would say that it may be more fitting to bury the former Massachusetts senator at sea.

More specifically; I’m thinking of a private, if not secretive, late night send-off during which the senator could be unceremoniously interred beneath the chilly waters of Poucha Pond near the coast of Chappaquiddick while strapped into the passenger seat of a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88.

This may sound unnecessarily harsh, I know, especially in juxtaposition to the tenor of the typical mainstream media’s quasi-canonization of Kennedy under the guise of an obituary.

I am, of course, not being entirely serious. A ’67 Olds, after all, is a collectors’ item these days.

I do, however, wish to illustrate the stark difference between the posthumous portrait being painted of Edward Kennedy in much of the media and the life the man actually lived. Don’t let the revisionist eulogizers fool you; Teddy Kennedy is no icon of honorable statesmanship, much less is he the image of devout Catholicism. (snip)

[Servant of the Cross]

I would say that it may be more fitting to bury the former Massachusetts senator at sea.

[Lizavetta]

I would say that it may be more fitting to bury the former Massachusetts senator at sea.

Ask and ye shall receive.

[A_Former_Democrat]

He was phony in all respects. His life was always about him and his precious little political career.

[angkor]

I won’t ask my former girlfriend of many years ago what she thinks.

A fine Irish Catholic girl, she was instructed on her first day as a college intern in Fat Boy’s Boston office to never, ever get into the elevator alone with the middle-aged sexual predator.

It wasn’t an office wink-wink nod-nod joke, it was a serious instruction to a new employee.

And so she followed that order and never was in his presence without another person.

[The Great RJ]

That Teddy would get a full Catholic funeral is a travesty. His lifelong support of abortion should have earned him excommunication, not the Church’s final blessing.