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I pray your son got a better Catholic education than I have read in your posts.

The only “infallible authority figure” there is in the Catholic Church, is the Pope in matters of Dogma only. Every person in the Catholic Church is human and has faults.

Pope Benedict would like a leaner stronger church. So one has a choice, learn about the Catholic Church and become stronger in one’s faith or find another church and help with the leaner part.

That is the choice. But to sit, moan and complain without finding out what steps ARE being taken, on Vatican time (not anyone else’s) puts one in the same category as those libs you denounce. In protest, so what does that make a person?

Protestant or part of a schism. With all the talk of pre-Vatican II, I suspect the later.

SSPX, SSPV?

His private vices/sins are that, private. Kennedy's public scandals (Voting record which STILL causes harm today) regarding regurgitating all over the Catholic Church makes it into a laughing stock.

We have DUers/Catholic "liberals" for decades) now claiming they are "Kennedy Catholics". Able to separate public service rebellion to God with private sanctimonious harmony within the Church. Gee, do you think Christ approves of this?

The Catholic Church has rejected many of self proclaimed members funerals/Sacraments due to perpetual PUBLIC scandals. The whole purpose of repentance is to provide a testimony to the faithful of the reality of the conversion.

Kennedy had plenty of time to renounce, as a public figure, his actions which continue to damage the Church:

Scandal: 1.a disgraceful or discreditable action, circumstance, etc. 2.an offense caused by a fault or misdeed. 3.damage to reputation; public disgrace. 4.defamatory talk; malicious gossip. 5.a person whose conduct brings disgrace or offense.

Unless Kennedy repented PUBLICLY from his scandals, the Church should of told him to go pound in the sand. Instead he held on to the corruption till the bitter end.

"If his sin is not only grievous in itself, but involves scandal given to others, and if the bishop judges that it will be useful to the Church, let not the sinner refuse to do penance in the sight of many or even of the people at large, let him not resist, nor through shame add to his mortal wound a greater evil"

"Although, by a wise and salutary provision, opportunity for performing that humblest kind of penance is granted but once in the Church, lest the remedy, become common, should be less efficacious for the sick . . . yet who will dare to say to God: Wherefore dost thou once more spare this man who after a first penance has again bound himself in the fetters of sin?"St. Augustine, who apparently promoted a strong Godly institution that fought rather than accept scandal.