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Relayed in a personal letter written to Senator Kennedy, which reads in part:
"The Holy Father has read the letter which you entrusted to President Obama, who kindly presented it to him during their recent meeting. He was saddened to know of your illness, and asked me to assure you of his concern and his spiritual closeness. He is particularly grateful for your promise of prayers for him, for the needs of our universal church.
"His Holiness prays that in the days ahead, you may be sustained in faith and hope, and granted the precious grace of joyful surrender to the will of God, our merciful father. He invokes upon you the consolation and peace promised by the risen savior to all who share in his sufferings, and trust in his promise of eternal life.
"Commending you and the members of your family to the loving intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Holy Father cordially imparts his apostolic blessing as a pledge of wisdom, comfort, and strength in the Lord."
You don't have a secretary or aid to write letters for you? Everyone I know has that type of assistance at work, otherwise, they would never get finished with all their tasks. OF COURSE, everyone oversees the actual message conveyed in letters written by their assistants and secretaries.
Do YOU think that the Pope's assistant perhaps lied in that letter and wrote something which the Pope did not know about or did not convey to the aid should be written?
Sanrene, how embarrassing for you to not know better than your post implies.
It's time to end the celebrity worship of politicians - and the Kennedys have done all they could to promote themselves as some kind of elite aristocrats that have some special right to rule this country.
You don't have a secretary or aid to write letters for you? Everyone I know has that type of assistance at work, otherwise, they would never get finished with all their tasks. OF COURSE, everyone oversees the actual message conveyed in letters written by their assistants and secretaries.
Do YOU think that the Pope's assistant perhaps lied in that letter and wrote something which the Pope did not know about or did not convey to the aid should be written?
Sanrene, how embarrassing for you to not know better than your post implies.
I don't mean to interject my opinion if this post is part of an ongoing exchange between Austin and Sanrene but it sounds like there is a reason why the official reply was not from the Pope--religion and politics and international diplomacy? And perhaps Kennedy's support for Pro Choice in the US.
A poster responded that it was significant to Catholics that the Holy Father bestowed the Apostolic blessing and explained this a few posts earlier in this thread.
There was an official response and that is sufficient for me.
As someone who is deeply ambivalent about the Edward Kennedy legacy, I'm not sure which is more irritating - the blind lionization of a seriously flawed man, or the blind hatred of a man who tried to do right by the "not haves".
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I don't mean to interject my opinion if this post is part of an ongoing exchange between Austin and Sanrene but it sounds like there is a reason why the official reply was not from the Pope--religion and politics and international diplomacy? And perhaps Kennedy's support for Pro Choice in the US.
When the Pope instructs his US arm to start paying taxes on their properties his political opinions will be welcomed, until then he should tend to his own dysfunctional flock and keep his mouth shut on US law.
As someone who is deeply ambivalent about the Edward Kennedy legacy, I'm not sure which is more irritating - the blind lionization of a seriously flawed man, or the blind hatred of a man who tried to do right by the "not haves".
When the Pope instructs his US arm to start paying taxes on their properties his political opinions will be welcomed, until then he should tend to his own dysfunctional flock and keep his mouth shut on US law.
When all religions are instructed to pay property taxes, I'm sure the Catholic Church will follow suit!
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