Sen. Edward Kennedy’s funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston. The senator, who died on Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer, had sought solace at the church during his illness and the illnesses of other family members.Our Lady of Perpetual Help, commonly known as Mission Church, was founded by the Redemptorists in 1871 and is under the care of the Baltimore Province of the Redemptorist order. Like all Redemptorist churches, a copy of the ancient icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help hangs in Mission Church.
“People come here because they don’t feel alone,” Redemptorist Father Philip Dabney, associate pastor of Mission Church, remarked. “There’s a certain presence here; some people call it the umbrella of comfort.”
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After Kennedy's Death: Silence from the Pope
Given Kennedy's ardent and public support for abortion, it wouldn't seem likely for him to receive a Catholic funeral. I found the following at American Papist:
[while] notorius pro-aborts seem to be "manifest sinners who cannot be granted ecclesiastical funerals without public scandal of the faithful."
[it can happen when] "they gave some sign of repentance before death." And there is at least some evidence that Ted Kennedy did just that. more here
1 comments:
Thank you for your blog on this matter. Doesn't such a public sin (pro abortion goes directly against Catholic Papal Teaching) also call for a public repentance (after the Confessional) in order to aid the faithful against a scandal when an ecclesiastical funeral is in public view? What does the Church say about such things?
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