On another thread, you said
Calm down. The Mass isn't being said by the archbishop or at the cathedral. That's standard protocol. He's being buried out of the mission run by the Redemptorists. It's not a full honors thing. The official Church isn't participating, at least not the archdiocese, or the Jesuits for that matter. And the circus isn't being directed by the Church either. In the Church's way, the stamp of disapproval was just applied. It was just done in actions, not words....Now that a Cardinal is presiding, does that change things?....Tradition is that public officials and police and fireman killed in the line of duty are buried from the cathedral with the bishop presiding. The official archdiocesan church is NOT participating in this funeral. O’Malley hasn’t put a seal of approval on this at all. We’ll know for sure if he shows up there tomorrow, but I doubt he will.
However, that doesn't change my faith. I won't give up my faith and the Church because a single man made a choice I would not have. From various reports, it sounds like they were friends of a sort. His eminence may need to mourn.
Why is it that so many who criticize the Church do so because of MEN? Believe me, there've been many who've done worse. This is a pastoral institution, not a governing one.