Email to CatholicCulture.Org, on their publishing of a mean-spirited article on Ted Kennedy’s funeral, claiming that there should have been less praise and more praying for his salvation. I quit their email list.
This is really distasteful and unworthy. The man spent a lifetime standing up for the rights of the underprivileged. If this were a conservative republican, nothing would have been said. As a lawyer, my trade involves spotting bias, distortion and agenda, short of lies, and this is full of it. It is commonplace for eulogists to speak of people as if they were in heaven, and conversely, it would have been cruel and mean-spirited to bring up his faults.
It is people like you that make me really struggle on the periphery of my Church. The funeral was a scandal? No. The greatest scandal since the Holocaust was the den of pedophiles that was the Catholic priesthood, and a coverup that caused a blue-ribbon investigation panel to resign in disgust, citing unrelenting meddling and opposition from the bishops.
Jesus, in his most damning recorded statement, said that it would be better for millstones to be put around the necks of pedophiles (you do understand that that is what he was referring to, do you not?) than they be allowed to prey on children. And you guys enabled them!
Meanwhile, you deny communion (how dare you?) to people who express support for gay friends by wearing colored scarves. Hypocrites! Whitened sepulchres!
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