I've been told, by more than one Catholic in this forum, that we have no idea if Kennedy made a deathbed confession and therefore it's imprudent to pass judgment as to the "wrongness" of the Kennedy Funeral Mass. He was identified as a Catholic, and that bought him the funeral.
Here's the distinction of which I speak: we can't judge this mass murderer's (interior) soul, but we can judge the public (exterior) facts, which includes the scandal of offering a Catholic funeral to someone who has --- as far as we can observe --- entirely repudiated the Catholic Faith even to the end of his life.
See mine at #20.
If a dying man is conscious enough to confess and repent, I would think he should also make what limited reparations he is able. In Kennedy’s case, it should have been: “Tell the world how wrong I was about abortion.” Too late to do anything about Mary Jo Kopechne, or his sexual sins, or divorce but not too late to repudiate the slaughter of innocents.