Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer,
President, Human Life International
Posted on 05/22/2008 2:15:43 PM PDT by Coleus
Sen. John McCain responded to the news of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s brain tumor saying that Ted Kennedy was the “last lion of the Senate.” Nice words, but hollow. Clearly Kennedy has been a forty year force to reckon with in the US Senate, but lionizing him for his headstrong political partisanship over four decades is a little like saying that sticking around for a long time and being opinionated qualifies as a “legacy.” That very record of anti-life advocacy is the measure by which his soul will be judged. While I pray for Sen. Kennedy’s recovery from a brain tumor, I pray more for his recovery from the cancerous metastasis of abortion ideology in his soul. Ironically, in the same years in which abortion has become less and less acceptable to the American public, it has become more and more of an obsession for Sen. Kennedy. Prior to Roe v. Wade, Sen. Kennedy had actually held a pro-life view of the sanctity of life. In a letter to a constituent he said,
“While the deep concern of a woman bearing an unwanted child merits consideration and sympathy, it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life. Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old.” (See http://www.worldnetdaily.com/
index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=31615 )
However, post-Roe, Kennedy’s record of recognizing the “value which our civilization places on life” has been, shall we say, less than stellar. In fact, he has a 0% record of voting in favor of life, and there is not one life-related issue in which his vote reflects a concern for the weakest members of our society, let alone the concern that his supposed Catholic faith places on them. Senator Kennedy
In other words, Kennedy has spent the better part of his long political career promoting the forces that kill and maim and destroy all the things that we hold sacred. What a shocking example of public service for a man who purports to call himself Catholic. A month to the day after illicitly receiving Communion at the Mass of the Vicar of Christ in our nation’s capital, Sen. Kennedy seems to have been given a real wake up call. When all moral voices go unheeded, the prospect of death tends to focus the mind on the truth. Let us all pray for his conversion from a career of abortion advocacy, for his enlightenment and for a peaceful death, something denied to all aborted babies in this country.
Sincerely Yours in Christ,
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer,
President, Human Life International
If a person makes a full confession, especially on his deathbed I don't see how a priest would NOT absolve him. After all, this is what Jesus told his disciples.
Some folks don't like the idea of a deathbed confession, because they have the idea that a person is 'getting off scott free', but the Catholic Church teaches that Purgatory is the place where those who are not condemned by God immediately, have the chance to be cleansed before they can see the face of God fully. Their souls are not ready to handle God's Glory. That's why we pray for those who have died, just in case.
In Teddy's case, his family and friends are going to have to do some TALL praying for him.
And he'll be the next lion in hell. Satan is licking his chops in anticipation.
I don’t believe the Church require public penance in order to receive absolution.
It is necessary when the sin involved has been precisely the sin of lying about what the Church teaches.
The entire cadre of pro-abortion “Catholics” have been teaching the whole Church in America that a person can be pro-abortion and in union with the Church.
That is the sin that requires public retraction.
Since there are priests and bishops in strategic posts who participate in teaching that heresy, this is not going to happen. Kennedy will be permitted to die without repenting, because the only kind of priest who will be allowed near him will be a priest who is “safe,” or “tame.” I.e., a Kennedy-family toady. Kennedy will have a big, splashy funeral, and the scandal will continue.
When he dies, Kennedy will have to face God and accept his judgement. Frankly, whether or not his coffin gets splashed with Holy Water and the priest creates a cloud of incense around it is irrelevant, at that point. I've never let the CINOs, or the priests who allow them to continue in their error, determine what I believe, or how I practice my faith.
It’s irrelevant in the sense that it doesn’t do the deceased any good—IF he’s damned.
It IS relevant in that it is a continuing source of scandal when the Church treats ex-Catholics as Catholics, because it only reinforces the mistaken convictions of those who insist that you can campaign for the killing of 50 million babies, and be a practicing Catholic.
Leni
drivel.
This occurred in Italy. The FreeMason was not a Catholic.
The house was surrounded by brother FreeMasons who did not want him to confess to a Catholic priest at his death.
However, a grace was granted that the man's wife had a baby girl. The FreeMasons surrounding the house allowed a priest in becuase of the birth -- many families baptize babies as soon as they are born for fear that they might die without being baptized.
The man was able to go to confession.
Many years later, the baby girl, now grown, went to confession in the Vatican. Padre Pio heard her confession and told her he was responsible for her father having a chance for being able to go to confession before his death.
This was unusual, as Padre Pio appeared to the young lady via bilocution.
We’re working on a Ted Kennedy Death Watch Office Pool, but can’t quite figure out how to construct it. We’re thinking it should span 30 months, since the median survival rate is 15 months. We want a grid of rows and columns, and we want to randomly assign the values after the picks are made (just like a football pool). Beyond that, we’re stuck. Any ideas?
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