The Editor of Reality magazine has hit out at the 'holier-than-thous' who lambasted his Order in Boston for hosting the funeral of US Senator, Ted Kennedy in August.
When it was announced that Kennedy's funeral would take place in the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a Redemptorist church in Boston, the Redemptorist community began to receive emails and messages that were highly critical of the decision.
Fr Gerard Moloney, CSsR writes that ''The messages were not only angry - they were hate-filled; they dripped with righteous indignation''.
Fr Moloney describes the tone and logic as ''strange'' saying if only perfect Catholics should get a Catholic funeral, ''who would be deserving of one? How could anyone - even including those 'holier-than-thous' who attacked the Boston Redemptorists be entitled to one?''
Referring to the Ryan Report, Fr Moloney says that in Ireland we are still trying to understand how those events could have happened and what warped theology lay behind them.
In his view, the theology responsible was a ''theology of condescension, of arrogance, without compassion or heart, that saw the speck in other people's eyes while being blind to the plank in one's own''.
Fr Moloney recalled the letter which the Senator sent Pope Benedict in which he wrote, ''I know that I have been an imperfect human being...''
Fr Moloney concludes: ''Those who criticised the decision to give Senator Edward Kennedy a Catholic funeral not only don't know a lot about being a Catholic, they know very little about being Christian.''
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