[xkaydet65]

Excellent point. The Church sees abortion as the taking of an innocent human life. A Catholic cannot say he/she accepts that teaching personally but not publicly.The Bishop has every right to sheperd the Catholic community by pointing out the hypocrisy of this idea of personal v. public attitudes toward abortion. A courageous direction for the Kerrys and Kennedys and Cuomos would be to state the church teaching is wrong and publicly leave the Church.

[Ciexyz]

But it's alright for the Church to grant Kerry an annulment from wife #1 even tho they had two kids? Isn't that hypocrisy on behalf of the church -- granting anulments to people of property so Kerry can go on to nab his next heiress?

[Salvation]

**The Bishop has every right to sheperd the Catholic community by pointing out the hypocrisy of this idea of personal v. public attitudes toward abortion.**

BTTT!

[pegleg]

A courageous direction for the Kerrys and Kennedys and Cuomos would be to state the church teaching is wrong and publicly leave the Church.

Or another way to look at it:

A courageous direction for the Church would be to state that lawmakers who support abortion rights can no longer receive holy communion.

Bishop Burke is on to something here.