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Revealed: Ted Kennedy's Letter to Pope Benedict, Vatican's Response

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Church-State guff! A mess of pottage to amuse the peasants. If anyone cares a whit about JFK rather than his memory or so-called memory, then they will address the problem of the separation of the RC Church from the US Administration at all levels, including a monitoring of its international effects. The way to remember JFK or his brothers is to confirm the separation of Church-and-State and to face down the Vatican on that sole issue. The other questions of charities, education and the general subversion of the secular state can then be addressed. The Vatican has traditionally and constantly undermined the authority of the secular state, and it now intends to make that subversion a special programme in its world-wide arena.
Isn't it time that the secular state resisted and monitored these efforts. At any rate it should begin with what JFK said of the separation of Church-and-State and not with the general guff that disguises his real legacy.

seamus breathnach 8:04PM July 03, 2010

Blogging may be your way to hide yourself Nancy but for some people it is the best way to share the gospel. If the remarks make you upset maybe you should stick to conservative religious sites where people just repeat whatever they heard somebody say somwhere else. That way you won't commit a sin by becoming hateful.

Realist of DE 10:02AM September 26, 2009

Thank God that both of these men have far more intelligence and faith than the ignorant remarks in these blogs.These letters should not have been published. This was a man talking to a priest and vice-versa.
Satan is real and these responses are evidence of the existence of deliberative evil, and "let it all hang out" now evident in our mass communication.
Blogs seem to be the Halloween mask behind which man now hides his intemperance and total ignorance..We can say and do anything we want, because no one will know who we are. It's a pornography of the mind's inner speech exposed as free speech.

Nancy of MD 4:35PM September 22, 2009

The Bible says the arm of the wicked will be broken.( Psalm 37:17). That is what happened to pope Benedict after he acted so pompously. He should've written the letter himself.

Not a big celebrity 7:13PM September 13, 2009

Death does not separate us. When you ask a friend to pray for you, it is no differnet than asking a saint or the Blessed Virgin to pray for you. We tend to criticize what we do not understand. If you study the Catholic faith, you will see truth being taught. It is a very deep faith and one that is often misunderstood.

Theresa Buffington of AZ 8:29PM September 11, 2009

Ted was a doer and worked hard to make democracy in America a reality for millions
of people. Pope Benedict is a nonentiy sitting on an undeserved throne. He is
NOT the vicar of Christ and he is certainly no son of God. That's why Ted wrote that
letter. It was his way of attempting to do one last act of kindness before he left the
earth and so he contacted a prideful hypocrite to try to get him to REPENT. The
pope made a big mistake. Now he's gonna burn even more.
Burn Bennie burn!!!

Uncensored American of NY 2:53PM September 08, 2009

...we go to Christ, as Christ came to us through Mary. To be Christ like is to honor Mary as He honored her. Please note, that Christ's first public miracle at the wedding at Cana was at Mary's intercession...she interceded to Her son for the needs of another.

Tara of CT 6:54PM September 04, 2009

According to the Truth of the Word of God, there ARE RIGHTEOUS REASONS FOR WAR!
According to the Truth of the Word of God, there are several things listed that God hates, one is the SHEDDING OF INNOCENT BLOOD (as opposed to guilty blood), ie. abortion.
According to the Truth of the Word of God, God says to SEEK THE TRUTH OF THE WORD OF GOD and DO NOT SEEK RELIGION nor TRADITIONS OF MEN (above what God says in His HOLY INSPIRED WORD). (Catholic traditions conflict with the Truth of the Word of God in many areas.)
According to the Truth of the Word of God, JESUS IS THE ONLY INTERCESSOR. Jesus, our Savior, said "I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, NO ONE COMETH TO THE FATHER BUT THROUGH ME." Jesus also said "I AM THE DOOR". This conflicts with the Catholic Church's adoration of Mary.
God bless the real Mary, and God bless Catholics who are being deceived (which means you think you are doing right), but are deceived by what the Word says that you are worshipping an angel of light or the enemy (the devil's demons). May God bring the Truth of this to your eyes.
My Catholic friends, the true church (not the Roman Catholic Church Building) was only true for the first couple hundred of years.
The Catholic rosary is actually modeled on a pagan tradition in the Old Testament. The Queen of Heaven (a false god) referred to in the Old Testament was renamed to Mary. Listen to the words of the rosary, it really serves no purpose, in light of Holy Inspired Scripture, it is like it is just belly aching to Mary (actually the enemy), i.e. REPETITIOUS PRAYER CONFLICTS WITH THE WORD; there is also some verse in the rosary which goes something like, "Oh, holy mother of god, you are our only hope and ..." My friends, this conflicts with the TRUTH OF THE WORD OF GOD! Jesus is the only Savior and Intercessor and door to the Father and eternal life.
We are not to Judge, but the Holy Spirit in me is the Teacher and the HS will show you REVELATION OF THE TRUTH to his children who are seeking Him. I am not judging, but merely trying to show you THAT YOU NEED TO SEEK THE TRUTH OF THE WORD OF GOD and DO NOT SEEK RELIGION. This is clearly the enemy seeking to deceive you.
Dear Muslims out there: Seek the Truth of the Holy Inspired Word of God -- the HOLY BIBLE. GOD IS LOVE and IN HIM THERE IS NO DARKNESS! The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, said LOVE YOUR ENEMIES. The God of Islam says, KILL YOUR ENEMIES. Please see that you are being DECEIVED BY THE ENEMY/SATAN. (Deceived means you think you are doing right, but are actually doing wrong!) You will spend eternity in Hell, not Heaven, if you do not awaken to this Truth.
TO ANY WHO BELIEVE THERE IS NO HELL: My friends, go on the internet to "Heaven and Hell Testimonies". You will find many testimonies from persons who actually went to hell but came back (from dying) to life to tell about it. You will be able to see a GOLDEN THREAD OF TRUTH THROUGHOUT IT. There is a HELL!

TRUTH of IN 11:50AM September 03, 2009

Myself, like most other "genuine" Catholics
usually dont spend alot of time responding
to these "comments" blogs-especially those
that pitifully seem to think that they can
decieve Our Lord through His apponted
leaders,representatives,and messengers
of His/our Church here on earth.
Specifically of course im speaking of
among others,The Pope, our many dedicated and so
honorable priests,the irreplaceable and
incredible and devoted Catholic nuns-which
i and so many others Catholic and non-Catholic
individuals owe so much to-and so many other
layity and scores of other countless Catholic individuals
like 'pro-life' leaders etc-all working for Our Lord,
and leading us so inspiringly and efficiently in our
Catholic obligations and to deal with and correct today's many many "challenges"
[and i use that word 'kindly' and very generously....]
and our current world's/country's serious errors and
failings and evils-[i.e. untill Americ's current "Hollocast"
of legalized Murder/Abortion is rectified and returned to its rightful state of being illegal again ...]--
~~~and of course to be 'fair' the above 'human' indivuals
are meant to include those of us who sinners as we
all are, those [few in comparison to the vast number
of our esteemed Catholic Priests who are most certainly
"NOT" among ]
those who are part of the disgusting
'sex scandal'~~~
Nonetheless,the pitiful desperate attempts
to rattle and/or disuade our Church leaders and representatives and messengers here on God's earth,of Our Lord and Savior,-
while they mite achieve some success in diverting
or convincing those few 'Catholics' who are 'weak'
or as Jesus warned us in advance-are merely "luke warm'
Catholics-
However, those scams like the ones mentioned in this
and other 'comments' will never ever succeed in their
acual motive and goal of "forcing" their ulterior motive(s)
of evil and/or of "convincing" our esteemed priests and Church leaders to "compromise Our Lord/our Catholic Obligations [by their] disregarding and/or neglecting and or abandoning any
or all of Catholicisms preceps or any or all of our country's/the world's genuine or moral obligations
{i.e. giving into allowing legal abortion, so called
artifical "marriage" between anyone other than the required
"genuine " man and "genuine" woman, etc. etc.etc.
Continue if you must, but indeed your reliance
on using such mechanisms as the failures of a few,
regardless of how disgusting and offensive as they
are[as are all of the offensives we comit against God-
including America's current and random thou temporary none the less horrific "SLAUGHTER"
of His most loving,defensless,and innocent,and helpless and undeserving of all His "HUMAN" creations=all our unborn
brothers and sisters= who are victims along with their mothers of "Legal Abotions"-except those many babies who
through the grace of God survive the attempt of the Abortionists at ending their innocen

Proud Genuine Catholic of NY 12:36AM September 02, 2009

I first noticed that teddy said that obama had deep faith, maybe but in what, Jesus. Not by the church he attended. You can call a church anything you want but that doesn't make it Christen and saying you have deep faith doesn't make you one. As far as kennedy goes like all catholics you notice that the pope asked for intervention from the blessed virgin mary. I think the bible says Jesus is our intervention and saviour not mary. Now some will say this is judging and surely the bible says "thou shall not judge" but this is not judging this is dicerning right from wrong good from evil which the bible says we should do. I judge no one on thier sin cause we are all sinners however a life dicated to it is another thing.
HAVE A GOOD DAY

ben the biker of TX 11:11AM September 01, 2009