Just for the record, here is my "two cents worth", which I just sent to the Archdiocese of Boston:
"Your Eminence,
I am so disgusted that your Archdiocese so scandalously behaved after the death of Ted Kennedy. I am scandalized, I am angry, and I am sick. This man has been the most vicious proponent of abortion on demand in the US Senate for decades, and you not only give him a Catholic funeral (which by rights he does NOT deserve as a public sinner who never publicly repented), and then you issue a glowing praise of the man in a statement, while allowing the President, the most avidly pro-abortion President ever elected, to deliver a sixteen minute speech (called by some a "eulogy") in the midst of a Catholic funeral Mass (where it is prohibited both in the GIRM and in the burial rite itself), where the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ was just feet away. How dare you? Have you no Catholic sense whatsoever?
Is the Kennedy money that important to you, more important than your souls, as St. Paul warns that the shepherd must give an account for his sheep? How dare you? When there are Catholics this country over who face the tough choices they have to face, in the midst of a sea of relativism, to do the right thing, the Catholic thing... and you reward this man, this unrepentant public sinner, with all of these honors. How dare you so diminish the Catholic name? Is a man such as yourself, who daily holds in his consecrated hands the Lord of the Universe, star struck at the name of "Kennedy"?
You will answer, no doubt, "but he did much for the poor"; "he tried to get everyone health care"; or perhaps, "nobody is perfect." Had Ted Kennedy helped to enact a law that allowed two-month-old babies to be summarily executed in the light of day in the streets of Washington, in the shadow of the Capitol building, would you have allowed these honors while saying, "but he tried to help the poor"? The fool who has said in his heart that there is no God and the man who lives his life as if God did not exist may make make this mistake and fail to equate the children in this example with the unborn children in the wombs of their mothers. They thus confound the moral order, but you, a Prince of the Catholic Church? I am ashamed, as I was ashamed of Ted Kennedy, who was raised by a pious Catholic mother and should have known better.
Your Eminence, you were ultimately responsible for this farce. You have thus committed a public act of scandal, and I urge you, as a subordinate and as one who prays for you and your office, to repent. May God, who is Just but Merciful, have mercy upon you and the Archdiocese of Boston, which you have so disgraced."
If I had it to do over, I may have been more gentle. This is a Prince of the Church I am speaking to, and he deserves our utmost patience. This case, however, is as clear cut as they get. Even giving the benefit of the doubt, there's no way to defend this.












