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Late Kennedy brother’s words apply to Pope Francis
Ted Wernimont
May. 4, 2025 6:00 am
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Thinking today about the positives I saw and heard about regarding Pope Francis.
It immediately brought to mind the words spoken by Ted Kennedy at brother Robert’s funeral after his assassination in 1968.
“My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
Those of us who loved Francis and who take him to his rest, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will someday come to pass for all the world.
Ted Wernimont
Coralville
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