Do you know for sure that Kennedy did not receive the Sacraments of the Anointing of the Sick, Penance and Eucharist on his deathbed?
Private repentance would have merited permitting Chappaquiddick Ted to be buried in consecrated ground after the most minimal service. All completely hidden from view.
Public repentance, a complete repudiation of his life's work to promote the butchery of babies, proclaimed by television commercials, full page ads in all the major dailies, would have merited a small, quiet church funeral Mass with a private interment. After decades of leading tens of millions of Catholics effectively out of the church, there was no justification ever for something approximating a state funeral.
He was more reprehensible than most any abortionists. An abortionist, in a lifetime, may commit 50,000 or 100,000 murders. Chappaquiddick Ted participated in attempting the murder of tens of millions of Catholic souls.
I personally know people who have been led down the road, very possibly to Hell, by this despicable creature. The travesty of the archbishop's actions is beyond description.
I shudder that some folks thought him a good candidate for the papacy, and even now that apparently, the new pope relies on him as part of his inner circle.
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