I'll believe it when I see it. There is no excuse for the church not having already publicly excommunicating Teddy Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Joe Biden as well as Rudy Giuliani and others.
They should immediately and publicly excommunicate Teddy Kennedy and deny him a Catholic funeral without his first confessing his numerous sins in private and publicly and vehemently changing his stance on abortion.
Many people seem to imagine a Hollywood type script and scenario in which the evildoer is paraded through the streets in an auto da fe with a formal proclamation being read in the evildoer's face by the bishop before his/her ultimate earthly disposal. Those salutary methods were available only in the good old days. Today we are limited to less dramatic responses.
Many Catholic bishops in our country have reminded these miscreants publicly that they are not to receive the Holy Eucharist in the absence of satisfactory public repudiation of their pro-babykilling stances as public officials. No bell, book and candle but that amounts to a clerical recognition of the miscreants' self-excommunication. What is bound on earth is bound in heaven, as is traditional.