Bishop Rene Henry Gracida, retired Roman Catholic Bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas has denounced the "scandal" of the Kennedy funeral. LifesiteNews reports that Bishop Gracida said on his blog that "there was so much wrong with the funeral liturgy celebrated in Boston last Saturday for Senator Edward Moore Kennedy that I hardly know where to begin."
He added: "Aside from the impropriety of such a grandiose celebration for one of the country's most notorious dissident Catholics, the 'celebration' was filled with liturgical errors and transgressions against the General Instruction of the Roman Missal which governs every celebration of the Church's liturgy."
Bishop Gracida posted commentaries by lay and clerical pro-life leaders who identified the gravity of the scandal, saying that "I am afraid that if I, a bishop, were to go into the details of the scandal it would only add to the scandal and so I will let the laity speak to it".
"It is not unreasonable to suggest that the 'buck' for the scandal of the secular extravaganza which obscured the sacred liturgical nature of the Kennedy funeral should stop at the desk of the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston.
"Again, since I do not want to directly criticize another bishop, I leave it to the laity to analyze the true nature of that celebration," he wrote.
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