Pope is SILENT on Kennedy death (Barack Obama, abortion, Jesus, leader)
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And, when Obama visited Pope Benedict in July, the U.S. president delivered a sealed correspondence from Kennedy to the pope, the contents of which are unknown (speculation is that the letter was the dying Kennedy's request for a papal blessing).
Quote:
"Here in Rome, Ted Kennedy is nobody. He's a legend with his own constituency. If he had influence in the past, it was only with the Archdiocese of Boston, and that eventually disappeared too."
Not just in Rome. Here in the US, he is loved and worshiped by the media and the small percentage of left-wing nuts. To everybody else, he was the epitome of privileged liberal elitism - just as the man said, a nobody to most of America.
ATLANTA — In the early hours before President Barack Obama's historic inauguration, U.S. Rep. John Lewis' phone rang. It was Edward Kennedy.
"I'm thinking about you, of how proud you must be and how happy you must be," Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement, recalled hearing the liberal lion of the Senate say on the other end. "I wish that my brothers, Jack and Bobby, and Dr. King were here to observe what we are about to observe."
For all the causes championed by Kennedy, who died Tuesday at 77 after nearly half a century in the Senate, he will be remembered in the South almost exclusively as the man who, in the face of resentment from many whites, delivered on the promises his brothers made to help end segregation.
He was totally not in line with the teachings of the Church. Sad.
And you know this how exactly? His personal life may very well have been in line with the teachings of the Church. Or are you suggesting that he should have been a shill for the Vatican in his position as a U.S. Senator and imposed the teachings of the Catholic Church on all U.S. citizens?
Not just in Rome. Here in the US, he is loved and worshiped by the media and the small percentage of left-wing nuts. To everybody else, he was the epitome of privileged liberal elitism - just as the man said, a nobody to most of America.
Senator Hatch......a "left-wing nut"???????
REPUBLICAN SENATOR, Orrin Hatch, a "left-wing nut"?????
“Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend.
“Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States Senator whose influence cannot be overstated..."
And you know this how exactly? His personal life may very well have been in line with the teachings of the Church. Or are you suggesting that he should have been a shill for the Vatican in his position as a U.S. Senator and imposed the teachings of the Catholic Church on all U.S. citizens?
He messed around on his wife and drank to excess, so I think we can safely say his personal life did not follow Catholic teachings.
He messed around on his wife and drank to excess, so I think we can safely say his personal life did not follow Catholic teachings.
Sorry, but Catholics are not infallible. If he repented and took the Sacrament of Reconciliation for his sins, he would most definitely be within the teachings of the Church.
He was totally not in line with the teachings of the Church. Sad.
He may or may not have been in line with the teachings of the Church, but he was in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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