[Peace-discuss] Catholics oppose public Catholic funeral for arch-heretic Kennedy.

[John W.]

*yawn*


On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:32 AM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:

 A Catholic pro-life leader has some scathing words concerning Senator Ted
> Kennedy's Catholic funeral.
>
> Thomas Euteneuer, president of Human Life International<http://www.hli.org/>,
> released this statement concerning Senator Kennedy. "We must, as a matter of
> precept, pray for the salvation of heretical Catholics like Senator Edward
> Kennedy, but we do not have to praise him, let alone extol him with the full
> honors of a public Catholic funeral and all the adulation that attends such
> an event."
>
> He adds that while Senator Kennedy called himself Catholic, like Speaker of
> the House Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Joe Biden, they are actually
> wolves in sheep's clothing.
>
> "They do not hold to the teaching of the church. They, in fact, take every
> opportunity seemingly to contradict the teaching of our church," Euteneuer
> says. "So in the case of Senator Edward Kennedy, he was not only against his
> church's teaching on the issue of abortion, but the same with embryonic stem
> cell research, the same with gay marriage and various other issues which set
> him in diametric opposition to his church's very well-defined and clearly
> articulated teaching."
>
> Euteneuer says he is speaking out now to remind everyone that Catholics
> cannot honor a person with a full and public Catholic funeral when, like
> Senator Kennedy, he really was not.
>
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