Saint Teddy?
Oh please. But our pastor seemingly tried to canonize Ted Kennedy from the ambo on Sunday. I was so disgusted. We’d hoped to go to our new parish this past weekend, but since things were still so up in the air on the house deal, we held off on it. What a stunning example we got of why we’re looking forward to switching parishes!
He stood up there and kept saying, “This is not political.” Oh come on! You’re talking about one of the most viciously partisan politicians in Washington. I could have gone along with noting that a man who had the means to live a life of leisure devoted himself to years of public service. (I’d push aside my opinion that his public service wreaked havoc on our society; I’d give him credit for being a public servant.) He apparently had intentions to help the poor, and those are good intentions. And if Father had gone on to say that today we hope Senator Kennedy is meeting his Maker, who is recognizing the good he’s done and extending mercy to him for any ways in which his goals and the agenda he pushed were errant, I would have been fine with that. But instead we got, “I hope today he is meeting his Maker, who is saying, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.’”
Yes, well done leaving a young woman at the bottom of a lake. Well done putting poison pills in all sorts of legislation to promote a radical abortion agenda, leading to the slaughter of so many unborn babies. He once held pro-life views but sold his soul for power in the Democrat party. Maybe he thought he could do more good that way than the harm he caused. (I wonder what Mary Jo and all the babies have to say about that?) Apparently concern for the poor doesn’t extend to the poor unborn, or born people who become inconvenient to a Kennedy. Maybe he was simply misguided. We know he had his demons. So sure, I pray he receives the mercy for his sins that all of us hope for for ours. But “Well done, good and faithful servant”? And I’m supposed to believe that wasn’t a political homily?
I hope our new parish will be more Catholic. Our current parish’s website is pretty reflective of its culture, so if that holds true for the new parish’s website, then I’m pretty hopeful about the culture there.