Posted by Jim Harper
Jim Harper is the former editor of Creative Loafing/Weekly Planet. He wrote this post after watching the video of the Ted Kennedy funeral on Sat. Aug. 29.
We're accustomed, I suppose, to people of all political stripes offering up their religious faith as justification for their most cherished political values. But it was moving, nonetheless, to hear Teddy's parish priest cite so many parts of the Christian Gospel, especially those parts about remembering that the world is larger than our own concerns and that our highest calling is to serve the poor, the lonely, the hungry, the sick and dispossessed. It was not hard for the priest to make specific connections to Senator Kennedy's career.
This article appears in Aug 26 – Sep 1, 2009.
