I sent Senator Kennedy's office an email last year which he probably was never shown. I told him that he needed to accept Christ, stop drinking (if he still was), and announce to the press that he apologizes for what happened when the young lady died after he ran his car off the bridge. I dont remember if I mentioned his stand on abortion but if I didnt I am sure he got the meaning of what I was trying to say. So he writes this letter to the Pope. What was the best thing that the Catholic church could have done? Simple. Send someone from the church to pray with him to accept Christ if he hadnt and to announce to the world that he is sorry for supporting abortion, etc. And what did the church do? Whatever happened, I didnt hear any announcements from Ted. Of course, making an announcement isnt as important as being truly sorry before God, but when someone gets full of the holy spirit you usually hear something coming out of them. My guess is that Ted (or someone from his staff) thought that he was too big of a person to get back to me and the Pope thought that he was too big of a person to get back to Ted. The Pope may have prayed, but unless someone would have taken action on the situation it wasnt likely that Senator Kennedy was going to change. Then again he may not have changed if someone did get back to him, and maybe the church did. In the end though, we didnt hear anything. How many of you will die without anyone hearing anything?

A general admission of human frailty is not a confession of sin. In fact, it's more like an excuse for sin. Ted never admitted to killing Mary Jo and never offered her mother an apology for his major role in that tragedy. Kennedy was a fierce advocate of abortion rights at the expense of the lives of tens of thousands of unborn infants; where is his confession of that mortal sin? His letter to the Pope was nothing more than the presumption of an egotist who lived beyond man's law and set himself above God's law in an attempt to write his own history. It was facilely self-forgiving and self-indulgent, but the just judge of us all will have the last word, not Teddy or his sycophants.