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09 Sep 09

Catholic Culture : Commentary : Articles : The Kennedy Funeral: Boston's Latest Scandal

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A strong argument can be made for the proposition that Senator Kennedy should not have been allowed a Catholic funeral-- not because of his personal failings, but because his public stands put him in conflict with the Church. Unlike private sins, which can be absolved in sacramental Confession, serious public sins require some form of public amendment, to address the scandal that they create. Ted Kennedy never recanted his support for abortion, and so he remained in open conflict with his Church. To allow a public funeral for him meant allowing for the perception that the Church is not really serious about the abortion issue, and thus creating a new public scandal.
A "lost opportunity?" A "great disappointment?" The cardinal's language suggests that Kennedy's failure lay only in what he failed to do to save the lives of the unborn. In fact, Senator Kennedy never lost any opportunity to advance the cause of unrestricted abortion on demand. He compiled a "perfect" 100% voting record, as judged by the abortion industry. He savaged Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, denouncing the legal scholar especially for his pro-life views. He accepted the "Champion of Choice" award from the National Abortion Rights Action League. During his wake at Boston's Kennedy Library, a woman wearing a "fetal feet" lapel pin was stopped at the door and informed that pro-lifers would not be allowed to view the Senator's casket.

Truth, Charity and Mercy: On Satisfying the Requirements for a Catholic Funeral

Ted Kennedy's funeral - the cause of scandal. He is in death what he was in life.

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If a Catholic is engaged in politics, the Church has a right and a duty to request coherence from this person. If, regrettably, this Catholic refuses to be coherent, the Church has the right and the duty to refuse him the reception of the Holy Eucharist as it is established in Canon 915: "Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion."
In the same way that publicly incoherent Catholics might be denied communion, these persons can also be denied ecclesiastical funeral rites. The Code of Canon Law establishes, Can. "1184 §1. Unless they gave some signs of repentance before death, the following must be deprived of ecclesiastical funerals: 3/ other manifest sinners who cannot be granted ecclesiastical funerals without public scandal of the faithful."
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- We are informed by the press that the person who received the recent funeral in Boston gave some signs of repentance; but those signs were not specific at all with regards to the many grave and public violations that he committed against the teachings of the Church. Even if the signs of repentance would have been judged sufficient by competent local ecclesiastical authority, the problem of the scandal remains because the ordinary of the place where the funeral was officiated could not have been ignorant that the funeral was going to be turned into a celebration of the life of that particular person.
  Here we should also remember the norm of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal that establishes: "382. At the Funeral Mass there should, as a rule, be a short homily, but never a eulogy of any kind." There is ample public evidence provided by the press that this norm was not respected in a recent Boston funeral and that fact is in itself a reasonable source of scandal.

02 Sep 09

NPR Ombud: NPR Was Big on Ted Kennedy Stories, But Not on Chappaquiddick | NewsBusters.org

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National Public Radio ombudsman Alicia Shepard isn’t afraid to raise questions of liberal bias occasionally. Her latest column is titled "Too Much Kennedy." She reports NPR offered 53 stories on Ted Kennedy’s death in the first five days (August 26-30), "But on that first day, in the 23 on-air stories, only one mentioned the name Mary Jo Kopechne and 5 mentioned Chappaquiddick." When they did, it was passed over gently as an obstacle to the White House:
Compare that to the death of Sen. Jesse Helms on July 4, 2008. A quick Nexis scan shows in the first five days after the conservative senator's passing, you can count only four stories -- less than NPR had produced for Kennedy in advance. (Five other segments mention Helms in passing.) Then consider the parade for Teddy:

Kennedy's Letter to the Pope - washingtonpost.com

Ted Kennedy's reply to the Pope, and the Pope's gracious response back.

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15 Feb 08

More details of possible JFK son revealed

The man at the center of a John F. Kennedy mystery is revealing new details, including his name and his birthday -- an astonishing date should he indeed be related to the Kennedy clan.Jack Worthington agreed to this, but only after his name was revealed

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The man at the center of a John F. Kennedy mystery is revealing new details, including his name and his birthday -- an astonishing date should he indeed be related to the Kennedy clan.
Jack Worthington agreed to this, but only after his name was revealed by a Vancouver, B.C., publication. He had been speaking with The Globe and Mail of Toronto over the past few days on condition of anonymity.
The British Columbia man is asking the Kennedys to provide a DNA sample so tests can be run to determine whether there is a match with the 35th president of the United States.
President Kennedy was assassinated Nov. 22, 1963 -- Worthington's second birthday. He presented a U.S. passport, Canadian visitor's visa and driver's license indicating his date of birth.
If he is JFK's son, he would have been conceived in the early days of the presidency, about a month after Kennedy wowed the world with the words, "ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."
Caroline Kennedy, the one surviving child of JFK and his wife, Jacqueline, was born in 1957. The couple's first child, a daughter, was stillborn in 1956. John F. Kennedy Jr. was born Nov. 25, 1960, about a year before Worthington. Patrick, who died when he was 2 days old, was born in August 1963. John F. Kennedy Jr. was killed in a plane crash, along with his wife, Carolyn Bessette, on July 16, 1999.