[NYer]

One word .... scandalous !

There are 70+ comments posted by readers at the above link.

[livius]

I had great hopes for O’Malley when he took over Boston, but he has just been awful and this is really a terrible move.

I would be less scandalized if he were just doing the mass, but letting Obama give a “eulogy” is Notre Dame all over again, but even worse because now Obama is standing in the pulpit. I just don’t know why this is being allowed.

Incidentally, I heard a Dem strategist yesterday saying that he thought that Obama could use the eulogy to energize the Democratic base. So no matter how people in the Church try to claim this is not political, even the Dems themselves admit that it is a political event. Shame, shame, shame.

[netmilsmom]

>>Why do I even bother going to this Catholic church with all of it’s rules of right and wrong if at the end of the day the guy who broke all the rules gets Mister Big presiding over his funeral??<<

This was one of the comments.
Guess the dude never read the story of the Prodigal Son.

Kennedy and O’Malley were friends. Catholics in MA bow at the Kennedy altar and rationalize that because Teddy ‘Did so much for the poor’ the rest could be forgiven.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

One of those comments;

“Ted acted more like Jesus then most of people who have left comments I have read so far”

I still can never picture Jesus abandoning a woman to fate from a danger he caused or doing a “waitress sandwich” with his friend.

I once maintained that Democrats believe they’ll get prizes in the hereafter from the almighty for supporting abortion. From some of those comments I still stand by that comment.

[Desdemona]

Are you kidding? Now THIS is scandalous. I thought O’Malley had more sense than that.

[Campion]

I concur ... scandalous.

[trisham]

This is so unfortunate.

[Campion]

I left a comment. It may not get published.

I pointed out that there was no "Catholic social doctrine" more important than defending the lives of the innocent, and said that O'Malley was bringing shame and disgrace to the church by his actions.

[tioga]

It is long overdue for our beloved Pope Benedict XVI to recall O’Malley to the Vatican and an obscure position and replace him with a conservative man of faith. The faithful in Boston are on the wrong path by their Bishop’s example.

[Salvation]

Cardinal O’Malley was sitting off to the side. He did not preside. It was not in the Cathedral, but in the Mission Church/Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Gosh, do you think Kennedy will need that perpetual help in Purgatory?

That is, if he received the Sacrament of the Sick and his sins were forgiven.