Is this the kind of publicity the Church needs?

NOR links to both articles: Kennedy's Letter To Pope Revealed At Burial and Excerpts of Kennedy letter to pope and response.

Perhaps there was some remonstration in the response from the Pope. Perhaps there wasn't. I think if I were dying I would like to have someone remind me of the reality of sin and its consequences, and advising me to get clean before I face judgment--not necessarily because they are presuming sin, but because they are reminding me how sin is incompatible with the love of God and eternal beatitude. But in the case of someone who publicly supported the "right to abortion"...