“I know that I have been an imperfect human being, but with the help of my faith, I have tried to right my path. “
That’s from Senator Ted Kennedy’s letter to the pope, read aloud at his graveside Saturday by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. President Obama hand-delivered the letter last month and its contents were secret until Saturday.
In it, Kennedy asked the pope to pray for him, saying, I was diagnosed with brain cancer more than a year ago, and although I continue treatment, the disease is taking its toll on me. I am 77 years old and preparing for the next passage of life.
McCarrick also read portions of a Vatican response to the extraordinary letter, whose full text is at the Washington Post.
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I read the letter and some comments on it. I thought the Pope’s response was quite nice, actually. I read one comment by a cardinal which said, if I recall: “Mr. Kennedy is nothing to us.”, based, one surmises, on the Senator’s policies on some social issues. But, oh well, the Pope agreed with you that he’s with the only judge that matters.
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Hi, Muse. My apologies for the tardy response, but I’m just swamped by the move.
I hadn’t seen that cardinal’s comment. I do wish clergy would stay out of politics. All of them. It takes a lot to make this pope look classy, in my humble opinion as a Catholic, but that “prince of the Church” certainly did.