You’re assuming that Ted Kennedy was inside the Church when he died.
The Catholic church gave him a Catholic funeral.....
“You’re assuming that Ted Kennedy was inside the Church when he died.”
I’m assuming there were a large number of things Ted Kennedy preferred to be inside of besides a church, yet because he was Catholic according to Catholic doctrine as explained in the article, he’s cooling his jets behind the pearly gates.
Yet someone equally depraved as him, without the same credential assigned by some earthly bureaucracy is beyond forgiveness.
The Catholic Church, according to the article, is like a country club membership - one must first be judged worthy of receiving the status bestowed by membership - requiring one to “fit in” to the rest of the membership, then you must pay the requisite fees, have dinner 4 times a month, etc. etc.
It makes perfect sense for Catholics to perpetuate this belief, but it strains credulity that they are worthy of granting Salvation to those in need of it, which is to say, all of us.