Ted Kennedy allowed communion?

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I’ve really been wondering about this alot. Does anyone know if Ted Kennedy has been taking communion? I’m sure that most people know he is pro abortion and his parish priest must know this. So do you think his priest allows him to take communion and if so wouldn’t that be wrong? It seems like the people in his parish would protest this if they held true to catholic teaching. Thanks!
 
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I’ve really been wondering about this alot. Does anyone know if Ted Kennedy has been taking communion? I’m sure that most people know he is pro abortion and his parish priest must know this. So do you think his priest allows him to take communion and if so wouldn’t that be wrong? It seems like the people in his parish would protest this if they held true to catholic teaching. Thanks!
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He has in the past and I’m sure that he still does. I doubt there are many Priests who would refuse him. In all honesty, I would say a majority of Catholics at least here in the US believe in the right to have an abortion so it really makes Kennedy just one of the crowd, a high level member of the crowd, but just another guy. Given the level of piety and adherance to Catholic beliefs that most Catholics espouse, I doubt many in his parish would even care.

I have heard that he attends Holy Trinity Church in Washington, and it is supposed to be one of the most liberal Catholic Churchs in the United States. It was the subject of a book several years ago named Catholics in Crisis. I reccomend it to everyone. It is a real eye opener in many areas.
 
Given what was said a couple years ago by numerous Cardinals on how, those that vote for abortion or abortion pro-officials, share in the sin of abortion … if the priest isn’t allowing him to take communion, he should reframe from taking it on his own for he who receives the body of Christ unworthily, brings upon himself condemnation.
 
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You know what, folks? It’s actually none of our business.
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Canon law would agree… because it is our “responsibility” to address a wrong when we see it!
 
At Rose Kennedy’s funeral, Cardinal Law gave Kennedy Holy Communion on camera before at least 9 million viewers. He had divorced his wife and had been living with a girl friend and had married her. If his first marriage had been annulled was not known at the time. Inquiries were made at the parish where Kennedy married his first wife and no record of an annulment was on record. The Cardinal refused to comment one way or the other.

Marriage is a PUBLIC sacrament and we do have a right to know.

So Kennedy in a state of mortal sin, (even if he was living in a sisterly relationship, he was causing scandal) was able to receive Holy Communion from a Cardinal of the Church!

It makes me wonder how much love there is for the Holy Eucharist among our bishops and priests. Many don’t act like they believe.
 
While Ted Kennedy’s public and vocal support of abortion probably is a form of heresy, it hasn’t been declared as such. And since the Bishop of Boston has not forbidden his reception of communion it is a matter of conscience. If Teddy Kennedy believes his soul to be clean and free of mortal sin, he may receive. Furthermore, we have no idea if Teddy has gone to confession, if he has, any mortal sin that existed, is wiped away. I don’t like Teddy Kennedy, I don’t think he should take Communion, but I really don’t care either.
 
I’ am concerned that so many of our “catholic” politicians are bringing problems in that they are known catholics and yet they do and advocate things that are in opposition to church teaching. Those who hate the Catholic Church just find fodder for their fires when this sort of thing goes by without comment by the diocese. It allows anti-Catholics to harp on the idea that it doesn’t matter because being a catholic, they can go to confession and it is okey. I don’t know if I have explained myself very well, but it sure leaves a false impression on the public.
 
As I said before, it’s none of our business. Jesus taught definitively on not judging others.
 
Here’s what the Catechism says:

2271 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:

You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish. 75

God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes. 76

**2272 ** Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. “A person who procures a completed abortion incurs excommunication *latae sententiae,” * 77 “by the very commission of the offense,” 78 and subject to the conditions provided by Canon Law. 79 The Church does not thereby intend to restrict the scope of mercy. Rather, she makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.
 
If I remember correctly Ted Kennedy remarried outside the Church. That alone should be sufficient to bar him from Communion.
 
A priest is not in breach if he gives communion to Ted Kennedy Nor does a priest have the authority to refuse communion. No where in cannon law does it say a sinner has to tell a priest if he is in a state of mortal sin or not to recieve communion. There is now way a preist can ever know if an individual has not had a change of heart and confessed and been absolved of sins prior to recieving communion.

As an EMHC I have had this very thing happen to me. I nearly refused communion to a person who was a known activist for the pro choice movement. Little did I know that this person had personally had a change of heart with proper absolution. Could you imagine the sin against God I would have committed if I would have acted on God’s behalf in judgement of this person and refused them communion. It is absolutely impossible to know the state of ones soul when they approach communion. Only GOD knows. The only time a priest can refuse communion is when a person directly sacriliges publicly the Eucharist itself. When the priest says “the body of christ” and the recipient says “no its not” thent he priest can refuse.
 
**And on that appropriate reminder, the thread is closed.

We are all aware that reception of the Eucharist with regard to public figures varies from bishop to bishop. There are differences of opinion and practice.

Those wishing to discuss the various decisions of bishops who differ on the question are free to initiate a thread to do so, but in order to illuminate our faith, it is not required to dispense with our charity.

in kindness, let us not select individuals as examples of diocesan policies we may or may not agree with and attempt to discuss something we can know nothing about, the state of conscience or the soul of another.
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