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>>Why do I even bother going to this Catholic church with all of it’s rules of right and wrong if at the end of the day the guy who broke all the rules gets Mister Big presiding over his funeral??<<

This was one of the comments.
Guess the dude never read the story of the Prodigal Son.

Kennedy and O’Malley were friends. Catholics in MA bow at the Kennedy altar and rationalize that because Teddy ‘Did so much for the poor’ the rest could be forgiven.

Prodigal Son made a public confession, and being a leader of many, Kennedy did not. Also, he had plenty of time to go from Spiritually dead (Which was the Prodigal son), to alive (By PUBLIC confession by showing the example outwardly).

Another person's excellent take on the situation:

“If Kennedy had the time to write a letter to the Massachusetts legislature about changing the rules to pick his successor he certainly had the time to pen a letter to the world confessing his numerous public sins and telling us how wrong and sorry he was for offending God. He didn't.”

"...we must make sure Godly institutions that praise men do it righteously."

Let me add, which is why the hierarchy of the American RCC turns me off. Honoring corrupt men of power while getting pissed on makes for a weak Church. The autonomy of American Catholic dioceses needs to be reigned in big time. RCC'rs have full fledged approval to vote for leaders like Kennedy, who through his actions, used the Church as a urinal instituted by his policies and presumably "generous donations" in order to establish Spiritual "credibility".

It starts with Churches comprised of strong convictions who show tough love that educates and lead. All we get here is corruption due to a weak Church, ignoring the bad while praising dependency of social justice through a noxious earthly bureaucracy.

And deathbed confession usually leak out. Read multiple examples and indeed if Kennedy had actually repented will be with Christ. Question, as a leader with great influence, should one make his repentance of policies that were at war with God public? Any proper Priest would urge him to do so as part of the repentance process (Even on his/hers deathbed through some type of correspondence), being a law maker and all.