[Pflienews] CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE NEWS RELEASE, AUGUST 29, 2009

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    NEWS RELEASE_*

     

    SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 2009

    *_FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE_*

    CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE

    (781) 251-9739

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    *_SCANDAL AT MISSION CHURCH IN BOSTON_*

     

    The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today decried the
    scandal which occurred this morning at Boston's most historic
    Catholic shrine --- the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual
    Help, known as "Mission Church" --- where a Mass of Christian Burial
    was used to “celebrate the life” of one of America's most notorious
    opponents of Catholic morality, the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. 
    Senator Kennedy fought for more than three decades to keep the
    killing of pre-born children legal and unrestricted in the United
    States.

     

    Surgical abortion has claimed more than fifty-one (51) million human
    lives since 1973. The Catholic religion defines abortion as an
    “abominable crime”.  [PFLI estimates conservatively that a total of 
     >277 Million <http://www.pfli.org> innocent preborns have died by
    means of chemical, surgical and mechanical abortions in that time in
    the US].

     

    President Barack Obama delivered the eulogy, in which he alluded to
    Kennedy's support for gay rights. One of the Prayers of the Faithful
    was a petition to end divisions “between gays and straights”.

     

    Ecclesial participants included Rev. Raymond Collins, Rector of the
    Basilica; Rev. Mark Hession, Kennedy’s parish priest from Our Lady
    of Victories Church in Centerville on Cape Cod; Rev. J. Donald
    Monan, Chancellor of Boston College; and Sean Cardinal O'Malley,
    Archbishop of Boston, who thanked President Obama for his words and
    his presence. Both the homilist, Fr. Hession, and Cardinal O'Malley
    suggested that the late senator had found eternal salvation.

     

    The Catholic Action League called the event “a tragic example of the
    Church’s willingness to surrender to the culture, and serve Caesar
    rather than Christ”.

     

    Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle stated:
    “Senator Kennedy supported legal abortion, partial-birth abortion,
    the public funding of Medicaid abortions, embryonic stem cell
    research, birth control, federal family planning programs, and
    so-called emergency contraception./  /He defended /Roe v. Wade,
    /endorsed the proposed Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), and opposed
    both the Human Life Amendment and the Hyde Amendment. Kennedy
    maintained a 100% rating from both NARAL and Planned Parenthood.  In
    1993, he received the Kenneth Edelin Award from Planned Parenthood,
    and in 2000 received the Champions of Choice Award from NARAL
    Pro-Choice Massachusetts at the hands of the same Dr. Kenneth
    Edelin, the infamous abortionist.”

     

     

    During his 1994 reelection campaign, Kennedy said ‘I wear as a badge
    of honor my opposition to the anti-choicers’.  His successful
    obstruction of the nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the U.S.
    Supreme Court in 1987 effectively prevented the overturning of /Roe
    v. Wade./  Beyond his specific positions on human life issues,
    Senator Kennedy, along with the late Congressman Robert Drinan,
    provided the cover and the example for two generations of Catholic
    politicians to defect from Church teaching on the sanctity of
    innocent human life.”

     

    “No rational person can reasonably be expected to take seriously
    Catholic opposition to abortion when a champion of the Culture of
    Death, who repeatedly betrayed the Faith of his baptism, is lauded
    and extolled by priests and prelates in a Marian basilica.  This
    morning's spectacle is evidence of the corruption which pervades the
    Catholic Church in the United States.  The right to life will never
    be recognized by secular society if it is not first vindicated and
    consistently upheld within the institutions of the Church itself.”

     

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