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...even be allowed a Catholic funeral. Others hoped (also in vain) that Boston's Archbishop, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who has declared that voting for pro-choice Catholic politicians "borders on scandal," would sit out the Saturday funeral. Though the main celebrant was former president of Boston College Rev. Donald Monan, a Jesuit and longtime Kennedy family friend, O'Malley was there to give the final commendation at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica. (See a Kennedy family photo album...
...time to prepare. Teddy was the only one of the Kennedy boys who got to make a funeral plan, to imagine what would be sung, what would be read. Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the Archbishop of Boston, would preside, with six others priests participating, including Boston College Chancellor The Rev. J. Donald Monan, and the Rev. Mark R. Hession, pastor of Our Lady of Victory parish in Centerville. Cellist Yo Yo Ma would perform the Sarabande from Bach's Cello Suite number 6; Tenor Placido Domingo would since Cesar Franck's "Panis Angelicus": "The bread of angels becomes the bread...
...complicated figure," says the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and the culture editor of the Catholic magazine America. "Catholics on the right are critical because of his stance on abortion. Catholics on the left celebrate his achievements on immigration, fighting poverty and other legislation that is a virtual mirror of the Church's social teaching." (See pictures of the Lion of the Senate...
...associated with the word Catholic as the Kennedys. But while they were famously Catholic, the hard-living Kennedys weren't known for being famously devout. So it 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...
...Jacksons] didn't know the doctor ... He should have met with the family, given them comfort on the last hours of their son." - The Rev. Jesse Jackson, speaking at a press conference on behalf of the Jackson family on June...