Despite the clear canonical prohibition to not give notorious sinners a public funeral, Cardinal O’Malley and his supporters believed it was entirely appropriate. Here in Canada, his fiercest defender was Fr. Tom Rosica, the CEO of Salt + Light Television. In the subsequent weeks, Fr. Rosica went on a media rampage, attacking Catholic pro-life media services like EWTN, LifeSiteNews, and even Socon or Bust and other Catholic Bloggers for their opposition to this sham spectacle of honouring one of the most notorious pro-abort politicians in history.
The ensuing exchange between Salt + Light and the pro-life community in Canada showed the deep division between the current powerbrokers in the Catholic Church’s hierarchy and the lay faithful who were rightly scandalized by the Church’s actions during the Kenney funeral. (09.08)
FEATURE: A Church Comfortable with the Abortion-Politicians: Fr. Rosica, The Catholic Church, and the Marginalization of the Pro-Life Movement
(2 Parts Series)
Excerpt: “Jesus could have avoided crucifixion if He just danced a bit for King Herod too. Herod was the liberal, political establishment figure of His time. But Our Lord wouldn’t dance for him. Why not? Herod wasn’t asking Jesus to deny His own divinity, after all…just to use it to entertain him with a miracle or two. Our Lord didn’t perform for Herod because doing so would have cheapened the truth for the sake of mere human respect and political protocol - which is precisely what happened at the Kennedy funeral. Just as Jesus would not betray the dignity that His Divinity demanded of Him before a violent and liberal political class, so too should have Cardinal O’Malley not betrayed the dignity of the unborn by forgetting who he was and who he represented, and by celebrating a notorious public legacy whose scandalous and murderous focus was the dismemberment of the helpless unborn child.”
Primary Articles:
- Fr. Tom Rosica’s: Senator Edward Kennedy’s funeral: On mercy and misery
- Life Site News: Battle of the Catholic Stations: Salt and Light’s Fr. Rosica Rips EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo over Kennedy Funeral
- Cardinal Sean O’Malley: On Senator Kennedy’s Funeral
LifeSiteNews.com
- Battle of the Catholic Stations: Salt and Light’s Fr. Rosica Rips EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo over Kennedy Funeral
- Cardinal Lashes out at Pro-Lifers, Soft-Pedals Criticism of Kennedy Abortion Support
- EWTN’s Arroyo Takes Cardinal McCarrick to Task over Kennedy & Pope Letters
- Letters to the Editor – Ted Kennedy Funeral Coverage – Pro and Con, Praise for LSN
- Pro-Abortion Kennedy Lauded as “Champion for Those Who Had None” at Funeral Mass
- Text of Kennedy Letter to Pope Benedict and Part of Response from Vatican as Read by Cardinal McCarrick
- Kennedy’s Letter to Pope: “I’ve never failed to believe and respect the fundamental teachings” of Catholic Faith
- Pro-Life Leaders to Cardinal O’Malley: Do Not Honor Pro-Abortion Kennedy with Public Catholic Funeral
- HLI Priest-President Re: Kennedy Funeral Scandal: “Private funeral, family only – period”
- The Kennedy Funeral – A Golden Opportunity or Capitulation for the Catholic Church
- Ted Kennedy, Abortion Advocate and Health Reform Mastermind, Dead at 77
I call it atheism by establishment, when the state shall not acknowledge the existence of God as the moral governor of the world, and abolish the Christian worldview from government by decree. But when Cardinal O’Malley tries to justify an abortion promoter the church can no longer stay silent.
Subsequent addition to A Church Comfortable with the Abortion-Politicians:
Gregory Baum, the subject of the protest, was one of the leading dissenters of Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s encyclical condemning contraceptive acts. Baum was a catalyst in the adoption of the disastrous Winnipeg Statement.
Subsequent addition to A Church Comfortable with the Abortion-Politicians:
Last year, Fr. Rosica interviewed Dalton McGuinty as a “devout” practicing Catholic on his program Witness. McGuinty, in talking about his faith, stated that he’s a practicing Catholic, but differs with the Holy Father on the issues of abortion and same-sex “marriage.” Rosica said nothing and just kept nodding and then went on to something else. Some viewers were outraged and sickened by the scandalous message Rosica was sending out, and wrote to him. They received no reply from Rosica and the program was repeated on at least two occasions.
Subsequent addition to A Church Comfortable with the Abortion-Politicians:
Added picture of Elephant in Room to Part 1 (http://www.socon.ca/or_bust/?p=2209):
http://www.socon.ca/img/elephant.jpg
Pro-abortion, so-called “catholic” politicians know that they can oppose the teachings of the Church. After all, when the “princes” of the Church eulogize a pro-abortionist it makes a mockery of the Churche’s pro-life pretensions.
See Giving Help and Encouragement to Abortionists:
http://graysinfo.blogspot.com/2009/04/giving-help-and-encouragement-to.html