Posted on 08/29/2009 6:42:35 PM PDT by sushiman
HYANNIS PORT, Massachusetts, August 28, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The public Catholic funeral of Senator Ted Kennedy - whose long career of abortion advocacy helped sever the American Catholic identity from the Church's pro-life teaching - will be a source of immense scandal, says Human Life International (HLI) president Fr. Tom Euteneuer. In addition, he said, Obama's scheduled eulogy at the event amounts to a "perfect absolution" whitewashing Kennedy's opposition to Catholic moral teaching.
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The catholic Church has always been impressed by Kennedy money and their “Royalty”.
God wont be so impressed.
Obama; himself; in Catholic Church; is a sacrilegious insult. A man; it is worth noting; who otherwise eschews Chrisitanity; and just about every one of it's prescriptions for life.
But, hey; when a 'world-class' opporutnity arises; the small 'm' messiah is ready. . .
I managed to catch a few moments throughout the day today and only because people were calling me and telling me to watch how moving it all was. I saw Chris Wallace on Fox News crying and choking up...then I turned it off. I then flipped it back hours later to see them literally showing him being buried in complete darkness with TAPS playing...the media is beyond surreal.
I saw what this clergyman wrote and it took guts. Perhaps I pulled it from FR earlier this week. It was excellent! I sent it to all my Catholic friends. The church should be ashamed but if bringing predator priests to light wasn’t shameful then this certainly won’t tweak their conscience.
AND they had the gall to read a letter Kennedy wrote to the Pope (which oBUMa delivered for him) and the Pope’s reply at the gravesite. Different universe for sure.
I missed the Obamassiah’s speech at the Senator from Chapaquiddic’s funeral mass. Did they have to cover the crosses and references to Christ inside the church?
"Perfect absolution?" And this from a priest, no less. I know he's slamming Teddy, but it's not appropriate. It's a gasoline on a fire. Obama doesn't need any more divinity references, even jokingly, since a quarter of the country actually believes this insanity.
Let’s hope Old Ted was wearing his asbestos jump suit when he died.
with his scuba gear.
You should go to findagrave.com website and view the memorial to Kennedy, they have floral tributes that people can add. Just as soon as someone mentions Mary Jo or don’t praise him, they get zapped. I added an eternal flame and just the words “No comment” with the tribute. I was informed this is inappropriate.
This is his memorial entry:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41159008
Let’s hope we wasn’t . Sorry , Christian or no , I have not an ounce of sympathy for him or his family . And I am very disappointed in and disturbed by the Catholic Church’s participation .
We must, as a matter of precept, pray for the salvation of heretical Catholics like Senator Edward Kennedy, but we do not have to praise him let alone extol him with the full honors of a public Catholic funeral and all the adulation that attends such an event. There was very little about Ted Kennedy's life that deserves admiration from a spiritual or moral point of view. He was probably the worst example of a Catholic statesman that one can think of. When all is said and done, he has distorted the concept of what it means to be a Catholic in public life more than anyone else in leadership today.
Obviously we don't know the state of Senator Edward Kennedy's soul upon death. We don't pretend to. We are told by the family that he had the opportunity to confess his sins before a priest, and his priest has said publicly he was "at peace" when he died. For that we are grateful. But it is one thing to confess one's sins and for these matters to be kept, rightfully, private. It is another thing entirely for one who so consistently and publicly advocated for the destruction of unborn human beings to depart the stage without a public repudiation of these views, a public confession, as it were.
It is up to God to judge Senator Kennedy's soul. We, as rational persons, must judge his actions, and his actions were not at all in line with one who values and carefully applies Church teaching on weighty matters. Ted Kennedy's positions on a variety of issues have been a grave scandal for decades, and to honor this "catholic" champion of the culture of death with a Catholic funeral is unjust to those who have actually paid the price of fidelity. We now find out that President Obama will eulogize the Senator at his funeral, an indignity which, following on the heels of the Notre Dame fiasco, leaves faithful Catholics feeling sullied, desecrated and dehumanized by men who seem to look for opportunities to slap the Church in the face and do so with impunity simply because they have positions of power.
It is not enough for Kennedy to have been a "great guy behind the scenes" as we have seen him referred to even by his political opponents. It is also not praiseworthy to put a Catholic rhetorical veneer on his leftist politics that did nothing to advance true justice as the Church sees it or to advance the peace of Christ in this world. Every indication of Senator Kennedy's career, every public appearance, every sound bite showed an acerbic, divisive and partisan political hack for whom party politics were much more infallible than Church doctrines. Whatever one's political affiliation, if one is only "Catholic" to the extent that his faith rhymes with his party line, then his Catholicism is a fraud.
As the Scriptures remind us, there is a time for everything under the sun. This, now, is the time for honesty about our Faith and about those who are called to express it in the public forum. If we do not remind ourselves of the necessity of public confession for public sins such as Senator Kennedy was guilty of, then we are negligent in our embrace of the Faith and we are part of the problem. As Pope Benedict has reminded us recently, charity without truth can easily become mere sentimentality, and we must not fall into that error. A Catholic show of charity for the family must not eclipse the truth that is required of all with eyes to see and ears to hear.
Senator Kennedy needs to be sent to the afterlife with a private, family-only funeral and the prayers of the Church for the salvation of his immortal soul. He will not be missed by the unborn who he betrayed time and time again, nor by the rest of us who are laboring to undo the scandalous example of Catholicism that he gave to three generations of Americans.
Sincerely,
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer,
President, Human Life International
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