Senator Ted Kennedy, the U.S. Senator from Boston, Massachusetts, passed away in August 2009 and was afforded a grandiose and public funeral by the Catholic Church in Boston, presided over by Cardinal Sean O’Malley.

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)

• Fr. Rosica vs. “The Catholic Taliban”
• Of Marshmallows and Militants
• The Soirée at Salt + Light
• Fr. Rosica’s Approval Rating Under 20% of Committed Catholics
• The Two Standards of Fr. Rosica
• Bread of Life Treated The Way Unborn Life Is
• Vatican Archbishop: Kennedy Funeral Critics Not Hurting Unity but Helping Church
• “He annoys us and opposes our way of life”
• Having it Both Ways
• No Deal, Fr. Rosica
• Kennediasm: The New Nestorianism
• Did they receive the Lord by your hand, Your Eminence?
• Cyber Imprimatur…for a price
• Thus Saith The Lord
• Catholic Glass Houses
• Comment #11
• Fr. Rosica’s “Parallel Church”
• The Catholic Church’s Salvation: Tell it Like it Is
• Fr. Rosica Continues to Slam Pro-Life Movement
• Left Wing National Catholic Reporter Comes to Defense of Fr. Rosica
• Kennedy Funeral, S+L Roundup
• Salt + Light’s Spin Machine
• Our Sugar Daddies
• Before the Rooster Crows Today…
• Roasting the Marshmallows
• Finally, A Bishop with Some Bolas
• Repent or Resign, Father Rosica
• Yo-Yo Bedazzles O’Malley
• Sham Unity, Sham Faith
• Kennedy Funeral Proves Catholic Church Not Serious About Abortion
  

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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

• Catholic Magazine Editor Criticizes Cardinal O’Malley’s Kennedy Funeral Defence
• Editorial: Salt and Light’s Fr. Rosica Continues Campaign Against LifeSiteNews
• Priest/Editor of Kennedy’s Diocesan Paper: Scandal of Kennedy Funeral “Totally Avoidable”
• “The Damage Done is Profound”: Former Senator Santorum Speaks on the Kennedy Funeral
• LifeSiteNews.com NewsBytes – Responses to Fr. Rosica Outbursts
• Catholic Publisher Apologizes after Distributing Prayer Praising Kennedy
• Commentary on September 14 News – Poullion, Obama. Trudeau, Fr. Rosica Assault on LSN
• Editorial: Salt and Light’s Fr. Rosica says LifeSiteNews is Doing “the work of Satan”
• LifeSiteNews NewsBytes – New Commentaries on Implications of Ted Kennedy Funeral
• Letters to the Editor – More on Kennedy Funeral, Rosica Blog Post
• Truth, Charity and Mercy: On Satisfying the Requirements for a Catholic Funeral
• Commentary: Pro-Life Bishop’s Contention that Kennedy Funeral Was “Subdued” Confounds Many
• LifeSiteNews NewsBytes Sept. 6 – More Commentaries on the Kennedy Funeral
• 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

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