Posted on 08/31/2009 9:16:06 PM PDT by massmike
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today decried the scandal which occurred this morning at Boston's most historic Catholic shrine --- the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, known as Mission Church --- where a Mass of Christian Burial was used to “celebrate the life” of one of America's most notorious opponents of Catholic morality, the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Senator Kennedy fought for more than three decades to keep the killing of pre-born children legal and unrestricted in the United States.
Surgical abortion has claimed more than fifty-one million human lives since 1973. The Catholic religion defines abortion as an “abominable crime”.
President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy, in which he alluded to Kennedy's support for gay rights. One of the Prayers of the Faithful was a petition to end divisions “between gays and straights”. The Catholic Action League called the event “a tragic example of the Church’s willingness to surrender to the culture, and serve Caesar rather than Christ”.
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Scandal is mild.
Very sad indeed.
The pig did not deserve a Catholic service.
He should have been unceremoniously buried at sea in an upside down Oldsmobile 88 with a whiskey bottle shoved up his evil tuckus.
This statement sounds as if the Action League is surprised the Church would give the rites to a known killer and lifelong shameless moral pig.
From my observations, there's no news here.
BUAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha!!!!!1!1!!11one
Noice! Mind if I steal that one?
Pope Benedict needs to defrock a Cardinal & several priests.
“Sean Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, who thanked President Obama for his words and his presence. Both the homilist, Fr. Hession, and Cardinal O’Malley suggested that the late senator had found eternal salvation.”
I hope the Our Holy Father in Rome takes note and retires O’Malley to some quiet parish in Bolivia.
If only it were that easy. These guys have plenty of supporters in the Church.
Good for holding the hands of the victims, not much good for teaching the Gospel.
This article is a press release. Is there any reason that it was exerted instead of being presented in full?
Catholic ping!
The Horse S*#+ about self excommunication has been shown to be a farce by the funeral of the former Senior Senator from MA. He along with the other “Catholic” law makers who extol their religion at election time, but vote for anti-Catholic doctrine in Congress should be publicly excommunicated from the Church. They should be denied a Catholic funeral. The reason that so many Catholics do not take their religion seriously is that much of the hierarchy does not take it seriously.
The Catholic Bishops and in particular Cardinal Mahoney should have taken care of this matter decades ago. If the American Catholic Church doesn't act on these matters, Rome should, Schisms be damned. The Church would be better off to release these way word souls to their own devices. If they did so many people would flock back to the Church. They would believe that the Church actually believes what it preaches.
We had a 'state' sponsored funeral, dressed up in religious clothing. These people do not serve Caesar they are Caesar. And their dogma is to render unto them what is theirs. Who funded the bulk of this show funeral anyway?
I am inclined to your position. The weakness of the pope is that so few American Catholics are willing to follow him as they did before the Council. Because of the Council, the American clergy and many of the Catholic lay elite felt the oats.No more bowing to Rome! So when Paul VI refused to change Church doctrine on birth control, the American Church rebelled. A kind of schism developed, but the bishops dared not go all the way because they realized that an independent American Church would quickly lose much of its membership; Rome felt itself in the same situation, so it did not press the issue. Paul VI was a weak pope, helpless to take any offensive, because he saw how the Church was dwindling in Europe and did not dare alienate the Americans. John Paul II did not either. He was not strong enough to dissolve the Society of Jesus. So he literally went over the head of the bishops and appealed to the public. In the meanwhile he gradually adopted the policy of selecting bishops who were more orthodox. His efforts had mixed results. He installed in Boston an archbishop who was orthodox but also a careerist who was more inclined to CYA than to confrontation with a rebellious clergy. The present archbishop has shown even less stomach for a fight, as evidenced by his craven attendence at the Kennedy send off. A confident papacy would simply dissolve the USCCB, which is a political rather than a
religious body. Better yet, the 100 bishops who protested the Notre Dame debacle should simply decline to attend. Not form a counter-body but simply stay home and tend to their knitting.
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