Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
Michael Sean WintersSeptember 02, 2009

Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley usually puts up his weekly blog entry on Friday afternoon. But, Wednesday night, he put up his thoughts about the funeral for Sen. Kennedy and the controversy his own participation caused. You can read the Cardinal’s reflections here.

Comments are automatically closed two weeks after an article's initial publication. See our comments policy for more.
15 years 10 months ago
The Cardinal's blog is full of paradoxes. There is a phalanx of American presidents (Carter, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and VP Biden), and other eminences. Missing from the picture are the millions of the "constitutionally" terminated unborn. According to a previous post, 2 of them may have become presidents, and surely millions would have become doctors, scientists, educators, public servants, and religious leaders. Perhaps one of those scientists would have found a cure for Senator Kennedy's ailment. Perhaps if the Senator had not radically changed his mind, adhered to Catholic principles, and defended the unborn, our politics would have been less confrontational, less divisive, more wise, and less single issue, and perhaps we would now have universal health coverage. 
15 years 10 months ago
Roma Locuta Est, Causa Finita Est ("Rome has spoken;
the case is now closed."). Now let's move on to talk about other issues (like health care, for instance) in a civilized maner.
15 years 10 months ago
He seems confused and tired. I can't imagine the stress he is under.  For all those trying to minimize the horrors of abortion, to relegate it to a side issue that isn't discussed in polite company, I would only cite Mother Theresa's famous observation:
''If abortion is not wrong, nothing is wrong.''
It would have been nice if Fr. Monan or the Cardinal could have squeezed in some reminder at the funeral that the Church actually cares quite a bit about the ongoing human sacrifice going on in this country.

The latest from america

July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever since.
James T. KeaneJuly 15, 2025
David Corenswet in a scene from "Superman" (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)
The first time we see the titular hero of James Gunn’s new film “Superman,” he doesn’t descend from the heavens. He plummets.
John DoughertyJuly 15, 2025
If we imagine ourselves as satisfying a God who will “give us” things only if we do the “right things,” then our relationship with God becomes less a friendship and more a chore.
James Martin, S.J.July 15, 2025
For 13 years, Josep Lluís Iriberri, S.J. has guided pilgrims along the same trail St. Ignatius walked over 500 years ago.