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Dear St.Chuck,

"That's a nice sentiment, but I guess it doesn't apply to 'Chappaquiddick Ted and Comrade Kerry.'"

It certainly does apply to them. I certainly denounce what they have done. In calling him by this moniker, I remind all what Chappaquiddick Ted did - murder. It is relevant, because what he most ardently works to protect in law is murder. Chappaquiddick Ted continues his murderous actions. I denounce it. I denounce it.

As for Comrade Kerry, perhaps you haven't read his totalitarian remarks about the appropriate nature of Church/State relations. He has denounced the pope for saying that Catholic politicans who work for creating legal homosexual "marriages" sin gravely. He has said that the pope has violated the principle of separation of Church and State. That is the totalitarian point of view. It elevates State to the highest place in the society, to the position of privilege. All else must fall under it. Church is merely tolerated as long as Church doesn't get uppity, and disagree with the party line. That is the totalitarian impulse. I denounce it. I denounce it.

But read what I've posted. As much as I revile all they do and stand for, I fear for their souls, and do not wish for them to be damned. I regret Archbishop O'Malley's inaction as well because it was a missed opportunity to try to draw these men to repentance.

Their actions are evil and perverse beyond description. They share the guilt for the blood of forty million innocent victims. They have shown by their actions that they embrace the sacrament of death, the sacrament of abortion. They have shown by their actions that they worship at the altar of Baal, the high places once torn down, now rebuilt, sacrificing anew to the pagan lusts of infanticide.

The evil they do is beyond any words I can muster. And they proclaim their filthy works, they proclaim their filthy love of their sacrament as the good, as the moral, as the sacred and holy.

Yet, God wishes all men to be saved, even these two. So do I. I am disappointed with Archbishop O'Malley's failure as well because these men, drowning in evil, at ease, comfortable with their horrible evil, need someone to shake them up, to say, "Repent before it's too late!"

I haven't said that it would be necessary to publicly call these men out and hold them up for humiliation. I've said that Archbishop O'Malley could have done this privately, a private call to each man, to say.

He could have said something like, "Your actions are those of a public sinner. You ought not approach for Holy Communion. You will be refused. The reason why I am doing is this is because your insistence on protecting in law the slaughter of innocents is gravely evil, and you likely are in mortal sin, and in danger of losing your soul. I encourage you to repent, to confess, to amend your life. The time for salvation is now."

I'm sure that Archbishop O'Malley could have said it ten times more elegantly, gracefully, and persuasively than that.

THAT's what I wished for these men. Perhaps it may have fallen on deaf ears. Perhaps not.

But that is one of the tasks of a bishop.

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