ansel112:
Do you are I know what Ted Kennedy’s soul, or the state of his soul was when he died? He did have lots of skeletons in this closet and warts, no doubt, but lets assume he expressed sincere contrition and repentance before he died, then under that scenario, to deny a Catholic Christian burial would have been wrong.
Now as for Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden, that is a question up for debate. It is apparent that at this time, the Catholic Church is not going to go after lay people with threats of excommunication. Excommunications these days, sort of like the old days, are much more likely to be directed at wayward Priests or Nuns who promote heresy and refuse to recant from it.
For example, Roy Bourgeois, a former MaryNoll Priest was excommunicated last year because he was consistently promoting woman’s ordination from the pulpit. Recently, and Austrian Priest, Fr. Reynolds was excommunicated for the same reason. Bourgeois refused to recant and was laicized. Fr. Reynolds at this time I think is excommunicated and my guess is the Church hopes he will accept the teaching on the all male priesthood.
Now, will Pope Francis’s policy change hearts and minds? I don’t know, we shall see. His basic view is that he wants the Church to be “a hospital for the spiritual battlefield” sort of like a hospital for the physically sick.
Let see if that approach works and more fallen away Catholics return back to Confession and repent of any sins and return to regularly attending Sunday Mass/Liturgy.
You need to address that to Salvation and her claim that Ted Kennedy was excommunicated, you can argue Ted Kennedy’s soul with her.
I merely mentioned Ted Kennedy’s fantastic funeral.
The fact is we don’t know if Kennedy made a deathbed reversion and asked for forgiveness.
So we cannot make accusations or statements about him either way.
Thanks for your post.