Posted on 09/07/2009 9:07:28 AM PDT by Pope Pius XII
The decision to permit a grandiose public funeral celebrating the life of pro-abortion extremist Senator Ted Kennedy has caused a rift in the Catholic Church in North America. Several prominent Catholic priests in the pro-life movement as well as other Catholic pro-life leaders criticized the decision, and advocated a more subdued private funeral instead. Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley shot back Wednesday defending his actions with some fairly strong words for his critics.
However, the war of words has escalated to new heights with the latest blogpost of Fr. Thomas Rosica, the President and CEO of Canada's Salt & Light TV network. Fr. Rosica took a swing at pro-life activists generally, and his US counterpart specifically for daring to criticize Cardinal O'Malley's decision to participate in and allow the Kennedy funeral extravaganza.
It may be unfair to characterize Salt & Light as the counterpart to EWTN (the Eternal Word Television Network) since EWTN is viewed in some 100 million homes around the world weekly and S&L would be doing very well to have a viewership of even one percent of that number. However, Fr. Rosica's influence is rather large. He was the organizer for World Youth Day in Toronto, is a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and an advisor to the Canadian Bishops Conference. He is, as they say, a man "on the rise."
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Interesting, in light of Bishop Martino’s recent firing.
The hatred for Martino amazed me. My impression of local Catholics is that they see Catholicism more as some type of ethnicity than a religion. Faith wise they just go through the motions but don't hesitate to call themselves Catholic.
Yet they hated Martino but love the Kennedys.
I always thought Martino was just doing his job. The problem as I see it is there are too many priests and Bishops who don't follow Church teachings. It sounds like this guy in Canada fits that bill.
Hmmmm...don’t know all the facts, but I take Arroyo hands down.
The replies on Father Rosica’s site give me hope for the state of the Church.
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