However, based on his lifetime of work and his failure to publicly repent, do penance and renounce his sins he should not be given a funeral Mass and Obowma should not be granted access to the Cathedral, IMO.
Can. 1184 §1 Church funeral rites are to be denied to the following, unless they gave some signs of repentance before death:
1° notorious apostates, heretics and schismatics;
2° those who for anti-christian motives chose that their bodies be cremated;
3° other manifest sinners to whom a Church funeral could not be granted without public scandal to the faithful.
§2 If any doubt occurs, the local Ordinary is to be consulted and his judgement followed.
In addition, according to the Order of Christian Funerals in The Rites of the Catholic Church, there are no eulogies at a funeral Mass. O'Malley is allowing the Archdiocese of Boston, Canon Law and the faith to be mocked by both the Kennedy's and Barry Soetoro.
Thanks to both of you for your replies. I know judgment is reserved for God alone but I share the concern of the faithful regarding the moral implications of such a mass, from my Protestant side of the aisle. Grace and peace to you.
This thing was the first thing to come to my mind when I read this news.
Yes, there's that thing about not having these eulogies, but here are frequent eulogies anyway--not that I'm at all trying to excuse any particular violation thereof in some "everybody does it!!!!" sort of way.