I was thinking while priest was reading that letter from TEddy to B16 that maybe that was a sort of bedside confession and from the Pope he hoped to get absolution and a direct beam to heaven’s scene..( Hope the Marines up there pushed back).
(as Mark Steyn says below, we all need forgiveness for letting Kennedy get away with it for all these years)
“Ted Kennedy went a different route. He got kitted out with a neck brace and went on TV and announced the invention of the ‘Kennedy curse,’ a concept that yoked him to his murdered brothers as a fellow victim — and not, as Mary Jo perhaps realized in those final hours, the perpetrator. He dared us to call his bluff, and, when we didn’t, he made all of us complicit in what he’d done. We are all prey to human frailty, but few of us get to inflict ours on an entire nation…
The senator’s actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tells us something ugly about American public life.”