[ardara]

I would like the Archbishop to tell us why his attendance at the funeral was not SCANDALOUS.

[Kenny Bunk]

Of Course, Sean's presence at this Cinco de Mayo ... 4th of July ... St. Paddy's Day affair was scandalous. This funeral should have been held in a small monastery chapel with the attendees keeping their yaps shut and cameras away. Ted, after all, was the guy running around his Palm Beach lawn, drunk out of his mind and in his underwear, while his nephew raped a woman at his home. On Good Friday. Christ died for those sins and mine, He did not advise celebrating them.

Notice that no one has reported Ted receiving the sacraments before death, or reconciling with the church, unless one counts those mealy-mouthed and defensive "letters" as penance. The Cardinal is typical of many Catholic "Thinkers" (Like Bill O'Reilly, Tim Russert, even Chrissie) who see the Democrat Party as the embodiment of Christian Social Justice, which for them is Christian Socialism as practiced in Europe and which is what led to the EU. They combine this with fervent admiration of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Party.

This is 19th C thought. IOW, "Let's make all of those attractive communist social reforms for society, but with Christianity as the key, not the atheism of the real communists. That way, we'll keep those nasty real communist killers out of here and build a perfect society for Jesus! KOOMBAYAH" The real commies think they are fools ... and they have a point.