Any number of things, including an acceptance of a grace of final repentance, sincere sacramental repentance and forgiveness of his sins (God is wonderful and can do anything and can forgive anything) may have opened heaven's gate for him or not.
God will judge these matters and, by definition, His judgment will be just.
I disagree with Edward Kennedy’s political stands on everything. But I cannnot judge the state of his soul.
**God will judge these matters and, by definition, His judgment will be just. **
Yeah — like a lllllooooooooooonnnnggg time in Purgatory (if he did receive the Last Rites.)