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...only Catholic President. Ted Kennedy received his first Communion directly from Pope Pius XII, and his marriage in 1958 was performed by Cardinal Francis Spellman, the influential Archbishop of New York. His mother Rose once reportedly said that she'd dreamed that her youngest son would become a priest rather than a politician, destined to ultimately rise to bishop status. (See pictures of Pope Benedict XVI visiting America...
...Mother was in the kitchen. Dad was upstairs. I was right here, right on this porch, when a priest arrived with an Army officer. I remember it quite clearly," Kennedy said...
...might come as a surprise that faith played a deep and important role for many of them, including Ted Kennedy. The Rev. Patrick Tarrant, who was at the Senator's bedside the night he died, told ABC News that Kennedy was "a man of quiet prayer." Said the priest: "The whole world knows a certain part of his life very well, but I think there's another part of his life that very few people know, and that is his deep faith." (See a Kennedy family photo album...
...That is the hard question: but Kennedy's death also raised the simpler one, about how we plan and what we do to improve the odds of a gentle death. He had his family, his doctors, his priest available to discuss his wishes. He did not need to worry that his treatment was being distorted by doctors afraid of being sued. He fought, but he knew when the fight was over, and those who were with him saw hope, not fear. "The truth is, he had expressed to his family that he did want to go," said Father Patrick Tarrant...
...grief is apparent on their Facebook pages. "We lost another one of our own at Disney. Too many, too young. Just wish it made some sense," posted Krista Miller, a Disney improv comedian. Rather than losing spirit over the losses, Kenny Babel, a Disney performer and close friend of Priest's, says he and other performers have been inspired by Priest's legacy to offer even more of themselves to the process of creating the Disney magic. "Mark lived for that magic. That's when Mark was most Mark," Babel says. "One's person's life can touch, in Mark...