Posted on 08/29/2009 7:47:37 PM PDT by Balt
Whew...
That’s powerful...
Thanks for posting this. -It’s a great read. This is the sort of man who should be leading the Church.
The Roman Catholic Church missed a golden opportunity to demonstrate moral leadership. It comes off as hypocritical to condemn abortion and adultery and then bury an individual that embodies everything the church is against. It has many wondering about the moral authority of the Roman Catholic Church.
I may be wrong but I thought that Ted Kennedy’s first marriage had received a Catholic Church annulment — that the Kennedy annulment that was “taken back” was re the marriage of Robert Kennedy’s son Joe.
Finally a priest who does not pull punches about the Kennedy burial. I felt like standing up at the computer and cheering.
It seems to me there is no particular official position. A Roman Catholic who happened to have notoriety died, and he had a Roman Catholic funeral.
Or have I missed something here?
I wish this Priest could become the Archbishop of the Diocese that includes Washington, DC.
From my post to God’s ear to Pope Benedict XVI?
ping
Actually, you haven't missed a thing. What's missing, if I may be so bold, is leadership in the Church that is able and willing to clarify the vagaries that a situation like this brings to the fore. The law of the Church can't cover every conceivable circumstance, nor should it try to. That should be left to the priest or bishop concerned in a particular situation, with charity, comapassion, but above all with fidelity and truth. Unfortunately, that requires that the priest or bishop concerned possesses those qualities.
Thanks! This was fantastic. I’m going to forward this to my Catholic friends.
Father Michael Venditti is a good man, likely a good priest.
In his statement on Kennedy’s marriage and annulment I think he is confusing Sheila Rauch Kennedy’s sucessful appeal of her annulment from Joseph P. Kennedy II.
As to the rest, no argument from me.
what about the catholic unborn children in the letter to the pope?
“Those are the issues that have motivated me and have been the focus of my work as a United States senator. I also want you to know that even though I am ill, I am committed to do everything I can to achieve access to health care for everyone in my country. This has been the political cause of my life. I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health field and I will continue to advocate for it as my colleagues in the Senate and I work to develop an overall national health policy that guarantees health care for everyone. I have always tried to be a faithful Catholic, Your Holiness, and though I have fallen short through human failings, I have never failed to believe and respect the fundamental teachings of my faith. I continue to pray for God’s blessings on you and on our church and would be most thankful for your prayers for me.”
Btw, does this mean Kennedy gets to go to heaven?
From the pope:
“An account from the Vatican of the pope’s response, according to McCarrick:
“The Holy Father has the letter which you entrusted to President Barack Obama, who kindly presented it to him during their recent meeting. He was saddened to know of your illness, and asked me to assure you of his concern and his spiritual closeness. He is particularly grateful for your promise of prayers for him and for the needs of our universal church.
“His Holiness prays that in the days ahead you may be sustained in faith and hope, and granted the precious grace of joyful surrender to the will of God, our merciful Father. He invokes upon you the consolation and peace promised by the Risen Savior to all who share in His sufferings and trust in His promise of eternal life.
“Commending you and the members of your family to the loving intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Father cordially imparts his Apostolic Blessing as a pledge of wisdom, comfort and strength in the Lord.”
Correction: Those who have challenged my identification regarding which annullment was overturned are right. Father got his annullments mixed up. Sorry for the error. Everything else, however, looks good.
Can't say I blame her for doing this...she had three children with this man, and him having the marriage "annulled" after its being fruitful demeaned her into the role of concubine all those years, not his wife.
Make this man pope!!
Unfortunately, it will do nothing to dampen the celebration that the media and the Beltway have invented. I had the television muted for most of the day/evening. Outside of media cocktail parties, political circles, and the People's Republic of Massachusettstan, not many folks give a rat's patoot about that man. Good grief ... they acted like he was a national treasure. Kuck the Fennedys.
Oh man, what an amazing article. I hope the higher-ups in Kennedy’s diocese read this.
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