O’Malley on Kennedy’s Funeral
Posted by Tom McFeely
Friday, September 04, 2009 12:29 PM
Cardinal O'Malley talks with President Obama before the Aug. 29 funeral Mass for Sen. Edward Kennedy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston. (CNS/Reuters)
Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston has posted an entry on his blog, explaining why it was judged appropriate to hold the Aug. 29 public funeral Mass for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy despite Kennedy’s longstanding and highly public dissent from Church teaching on abortion.
Some Catholics have been critical of the decision, arguing that by so doing Church authorities may have given the appearance... READ MORE
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What Kennedy’s Letter Didn’t Say
Posted by Tom McFeely
Monday, August 31, 2009 9:14 AM
Cardinal McCarrick addresses Kennedy family members during the burial service for Sen. Edward Kennedy. (CNS/Reuters)
The late Sen. Edward Kennedy didn’t say he would fight to ensure there would be no mandate for abortion funding in the health-care reform bill now before Congress, in the letter he wrote to Pope Benedict XVI that was hand-delivered to the Pope by President Barack Obama in early July.
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the retired archbishop of Washington, read excerpts from the letter at Kennedy’s... READ MORE
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Kennedy and the Culture Wars
Posted by Daily Blog
Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:32 AM
Sen. Edward Kennedy in 1979. (CNS)
Father Raymond J. de Souza has written this news analysis for the Sept. 6 issue of the Register:
Edward Kennedy’s Catholic Legacy: America’s Culture Wars
By FATHER RAYMOND J. DE SOUZA
REGISTER CORRESPONDENT
In death Sen. Edward M. Kennedy hardly needs his biography recalled. His life could hardly have been more chronicled. What is more interesting to ask, especially in light of the... READ MORE
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Edward Kennedy and Northern Ireland
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 1:32 PM
Sen. Edward Kennedy stands beside Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams as he talks to reporters in Boston in September 1994. (Reuters)
This BBC News article recounts some of Sen. Ted Kennedy’s many important contributions to facilitating the peace process in Northern Ireland.
The late senator’s efforts in this regard made him a beloved figure to many people in Ireland, the ancestral home of the famous Catholic clan of American Kennedys.
Writes BBC News,
Before Bill Clinton, the U.S. president, who was instrumental in the... READ MORE
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Prayers for Sen. Kennedy
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 11:47 AM
The flag over the U.S. Capitol in Washington flies at half-staff today. (CNS/Reuters)
From a press release from CatholicVote.org, regarding the death yesterday of Sen. Edward Kennedy:
CHICAGO – CatholicVote.org President Brian Burch issued the following statement regarding the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy:
Senator Edward Kennedy leaves behind a long record of public service, but honesty also requires that we acknowledge his mixed legacy. We applaud the late Senator for... READ MORE
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CNS Article on Ted Kennedy
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:48 AM
Sen. Edward Kennedy in 2007. (CNS)
Here is the obituary article posted by Catholic News Service about the life of Sen. Edward Kennedy, from a Catholic perspective.
It necessarily balances positive actions he undertook as a U.S. senator against his lengthy history of political support for abortion, in violation of basic Church teachings regarding the sanctity of unborn human life. And it notes that in taking this anti-life... READ MORE
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Edward Kennedy, 1932-2009
Posted by Tom McFeely
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:52 AM
Edward Kennedy greets Pope John Paul II, as Rosalyn Carter, wife of President Jimmy Carter, looks on, during John Paul's arrival in Boston in 1979. (CNS)
America’s most famous Catholic politician, Sen. Edward Kennedy, has died.
Kennedy died late yesterday at his home in Hyannisport, Mass. He was 77.
Look for more detailed coverage of the life and death of Kennedy, and of his controversial legacy to American public life and to the Church in the United States, here in the Daily Blog and in the print issues of the National Catholic Register.
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