{"id":1829,"date":"2005-05-25T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/church-mouse.lanuera.com\/IV\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2005-05-25T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-25T00:45:00","slug":"activist-priest-farewelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=1829","title":{"rendered":"Activist priest farewelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">   ABORIGINAL activist and Catholic priest Ted Kennedy has been farewelled by about 700 mourners at a funeral service in the Sydney suburb of Redfern.<\/p>\n<p> Fr Ted, who spent more than 30 years supporting Redfern&#8217;s Aboriginal community, died at Concord Hospital on May 17 aged 74.<\/p>\n<p>Long-time friend Chris Geraghty told the gathering at The Block that Fr Ted had lived to serve the people he loved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Fr Ted comes before you with a life poured out for all with empty pockets and dirty hands,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a living treasure, compassionate, a pebble in the comfortable boot of establishment, a man who spilled his guts for others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He learnt to love what moved to rhythms other than his own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fr Ted entered the seminary at 18 and was ordained in 1953.  He moved to the Redfern church in 1971 and established a network of priests to support the local Aboriginal community.<\/p>\n<p>Former governor-general Sir William Deane, Democrats Senator Aden Ridgeway and heritage campaigner Jack Mundy attended the service, along with about 40 priests.<\/p>\n<p>An Aboriginal mass was held at St Vincent&#8217;s Catholic Church in Redfern before the main funeral service.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5744,15390830%5E1702,00.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\">Activist priest farewelled (The Australian\/Australian Associated Press 24\/5\/05)<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABORIGINAL activist and Catholic priest Ted Kennedy has been farewelled by about 700 mourners at a funeral service in the Sydney suburb of Redfern.<\/p>\n<p> Fr Ted, who spent more than 30 years supporting Redfern&#8217;s Aboriginal community, died at Concord Hospital on May 17 aged 74.<\/p>\n<p>Long-time friend Chris Geraghty told the gathering at The Block that Fr Ted had lived to serve the people he loved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Fr Ted comes before you with a life poured out for all with empty pockets and dirty hands,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a living treasure, compassionate, a pebble in the comfortable boot &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/?p=1829\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/church-mouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}