Posted on 08/27/2009 10:41:06 AM PDT by NYer
Well said.
St. Edward of Boston, pray for us. Don’t make me sick. This guy was perverse in his sense of social justice. Aborted babies don’t vote, so they’re expendable. If he is having a Catholic funeral, the cardinal/archbishop of Boston ought to vacate his See immediately. What a mockery of our faith
To know the history of the Kennedy brothers, and to say they were good Catholics really is a stretch. To look at the ruined lives of Marilyn Monroe, Mary Jo Kopechne, Joan Kennedy does not speak well of men who are suppose to follow and obey the laws of the of God and the church.
infidelity, debauchery and arrogance is not what is pleasing to God. Obedience, humility and contrition speaks volumes.
May God have mercy on their souls.
Fiedler is a Sister not a Nun, big difference.
Bravo Zulu, Patrick.
Rumor has it that she may once have been Catholic but clearly no more.
Reason #2 for Sean Cardinal O’Malley to vacate his see in Boston: Allowing Comrade Obabykiller to set foot in a Catholic Church, much less give a eulogy from the pulpit. This may be slightly worse than Comrade O at Notre Shame.
When I googled the quote, I found several blogs and fora with the quote as well as an article from WND.
The most reputable source I got was from a column in the Baltimore Examiner from the Pittsburgh Examiner:
The article doesn't source the quote too well, either.
I would place it in my list of “things that are entirely possible, perhaps even slightly probably, but not proven.”
sitetest
Don’t forget the other A-word, annulment in which he bribed the church and was awarded an annulment from a wife of many years and with children.
A person in authority, like Sen. Kennedy, who has the power to make laws and influence others should see that as a “God-given” obligation. You are put in a position to enforce justice not to say whatever you need to in order to keep being elected. That is a betrayal of the trust.
Mr. Kennedy was divorced in 1982 and didn't receive a declaration of nullity from the Church until the early or mid-1990s.
In that the Church grants tens of thousands of declarations of nullity every single year, and usually in much less than a decade or so, and usually at a cost of well under a thousand dollars, if Mr. Kennedy bribed anyone for his annulment, he got ripped off.
sitetest
I other words she's a Leftist/Liberal muddle-brained egg head.
When will the sainthodd process begin?
We weren't talking about “sainthood process,” we were talking about your patently false assertion that Mr. Kennedy bribed the Church for a declaration of nullity.
sitetest
***Sister Maureen Fiedler, Sister of Loretto, Ph.D is an American activist and radio host. She is a progressive, sometimes controversial activist within the Roman Catholic Church. She has a long history working with interfaith coalitions on a variety of issues including: social justice, peace, anti-racism work, gender equality, human rights and female ordination to the Catholic Church. She holds a Ph.D in Government from Georgetown University.***
The Inquisition is coming. The theologically leprous will be outcast. Unclean. The good Sister is representative of those who have emptied our seminaries and our monasteries and our nunneries.
I don’t know what green primeval ooze is dripped from her cranium out her ears, but it appears to have supplanted the Faith, edged out Scripture and removed the Sacred Tradition from whatever remains of her moral fiber. Good bye and good riddance. Those who remove themselves from the Faith need to be recognized by the Church.
Boorishness? I did not note any boorishness on the part of Mr. Madrid. He states facts about Kennedy’s zealousness in promoting abortion of the truly weak and defenseless. How in heaven’s name Sr. Maureen could say that Kennedy makes her proud to be a Catholic is beyond me unless ideology in her eyes trumps the Catholic Faith. Kennedy excelled in ignoring that Faith. Besides his pro-abortion stance and his spearheading statism which I don’t think goes with the Catholic principle of subsidiarity, his personal example will forever by tarnished by Chappaquidick and other behavior which need not be mentioned here.Kennedy remains a “Lion” for those who are liberals, because of his fierce partisanship in that cause. That certainly does not qualify him for making Catholics proud given liberalism’s current agenda.
May God have mercy on his soul...but for America and American catholics it would have been better if he died 70 years ago.
How did a rich million-dollar donor get an annulment having a wife of many years and children. I guess that's normal church process.
Defend it all you want. I've seen your kind before.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
I think I can explain it. Years and years ago, I saw a documentary about the campaigns and presidencies of Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson. What caught my attention was the discussion of the rise of social welfare in the country. In short, the argument was made to the public that "if church charity can help more people than personal charity, then a national charity (welfare) should be even more effective at eradicating poverty and hunger because the Federal government's tax coffers are larger than any church collection plate".
FWIW, I have never very few people in my lifetime who do not believe this argument at some level. They naively view our government as neutral and therefore not hostile to Christianity. They believe that, as long as the government is trying to achieve the same end (helping the poor/hungry), Christians should not be criticizing the government for it's welfare programs (i.e. should consider their taxes paid equal to money dropped into the church collection plate).
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