Time Magazine worries that the Pope hasn’t made any statement about the passing of Senator Edward Kennedy in a piece entitled “After Kennedy’s Death: Silence from the Pope.
As of yet, unlike some other world leaders, Pope Benedict has not commented or issued an official communique in response to Kennedy’s death.
Giving it more prominence is the fact that the story is also linked above the banner on the Drudge Report.
Hey Time Mag, did you know 146,000 people die every day and 99.9999 percent of the people who die don’t go remarked on by the Pope?
Hey Time Mag, just because Ted Kennedy was your guiding star on immigration reform and abortion, doesn’t mean he was all things to all people.
Hey Time Mag, although Kennedy was your favorite Catholic he was still just a Senator.
Hey Time Mag, the Pope is the Pope of the world. Not Washington DC. And not just America either. The world.
And Ted Kennedy doesn’t need a press release right now. He needs prayers. And that, I’m sure, he’s getting from the Pope. And the Pope is praying for the other 145,999 folks that died the same day as well.
August 30, 2009 at 1:52 am
McCarrick has kinly answered the question for us, hasn't he. We laugh because we believe, and I do believe the last laugh is best…
August 30, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Patty in CT: Kennedy was not formally excommunicated, though I think he should have been – per canon 915 as interpreted by the Apostolic Asignatura Arch. Burke.
My thoughts on Kennedy's lot are in:
http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html#7436363335310713855
September 1, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Great OP-ED in NYTimes yesterday about Teddy's sister Eunice, the true Catholic liberal who was pro-life and pro-disabled, and tried to save the Democratic Party from going pro-abort in the mid 1970's.
The Pope sent her a lovely letter, praising her work founding and running The Special Olympics.
Take the Pope's silence about Teddy as a reprimand, because that's what it is.