Catholic Church 'will refuse Kerry communion' -

The Telegraph - UK ^ | April 4, 2004 | Julian Coman

[McGavin999]

If the Church wanted to actually accomplish something Kennedy, Daschle, Kerry, etc. should be turned away all on the same day.

[Free_at_last_-2001]

People in Rome are becoming more and more aware that there's a problem with John Kerry..... - Good!

[Lawgvr1955]

I see this fight as a good thing. My family (Polish immigrant background)at one time voted straight Dem. As the Democrat party became more and more the party of abortion, pro abortion Dems quit getting votes. Now most everyone has started voting Rep because of this very issue.

I have long been embarrassed to see Kennedy, Kerry, Durbin, et al., running as pro abortion Catholics.

[GretchenEE]

I'm very proud of the Catholics who are behind this.

Since 1980, no presidential candidate has won the Catholic vote but lost the White House, with the exception of Al Gore who narrowly lost in 2000.

I never heard Gore got the Catholic vote in '00.

Within the Kerry campaign there are rumours that Mr Kerry may yet decide to confront his challengers head-on. One aide was reported last week to be searching for a Church with a hostile priest.
According to rumour, Mr Kerry would attend Mass knowing that he would be refused Communion in the full glare of the media. Sympathetic Catholics would then be expected to rally to his cause.

Sounds like blather.

[anniegetyourgun]

And Pelosi.

[MegaSilver]

If the Church wanted to actually accomplish something Kennedy, Daschle, Kerry, etc. should be turned away all on the same day.

Daschle's already been excommunicated. He was barred from Communion after he remarried without an annulment, and he was ordered to remove any and all documentation referring to him as a Catholic after he voted no on the partial-birth abortion ban.

[Callahan]

Kerry's little martyr plan won't wash. He's a not a "safe, legal, rare" type torn by faith, but a pro-abortion extremist beholden to the NARAL crew. He voted against banning partial-birth and fetal protection even though both had wide support. He's the one outside the mainstream.

[CarryaBigStick]

It is deeply troubling to me that so many Catholics vote democrat givin the parties stance on abortion. I never could understand the attraction, it seems very schizophrenic and utterly at odds with the faith.

[MegaSilver]

I never heard Gore got the Catholic vote in '00.

It was something like 49 to 47 percent. But that's including CINOs.

[MegaSilver]

It is deeply troubling to me that so many Catholics vote democrat givin the parties stance on abortion. I never could understand the attraction, it seems very schizophrenic and utterly at odds with the faith.

CINOs.

[bitt]

To: UnklGene
Something I came across once was along the lines of
"you cannot really believe in God, if you believe abortion is okay"

In an "Esquire" Article, Satan was being interviewed. When asked why he ended up with so many new charges in Hell, Satan answered,

"Jesus is an easy guy to love, but He's hard to live with, day after day...".

[AMDG&BVMH]

"The Catholic Church here in Boston has fawned all over the Kennedys since the fifties and we all know the Kennedy track record. "

Yes, but O'Malley is new:

Mr Kerry's local bishop in Boston, Sean O'Malley, is no more sympathetic to his views than Archbishop Burke. Without identifying his most famous parishioner by name, Bishop O'Malley has said that a Catholic politician who did not vote in Congress according to Church doctrine "should not dare to come to Communion".

[FlyVet]

You cannot be Catholic and pro-choice.

Hah, tell that to some of my Catholic relatives, who will vote for him because he's "Catholic", just as many of them will vote for an abortionist if the AARP tells them to. Needless to say, I'm not on very good terms with many of my relatives. After all "who am I to judge?"

[AMDG&BVMH]

"I almost fell out of my chair!! Praise the Lord!!!"

No kidding; did you ever expect to read something like this in the press:

rather than risk a confrontation with the formidable Archbishop Raymond Burke of St Louis

[Rome2000]

"but the Pope doesn't have a vote in this election."

More idiocy from the microcephs of the Kerry cabal.

Catholics will go beserk when they realize the Church considers horseface an apostate.

Kerry will be lucky if he isn't crucified.

[pax_et_bonum]

"Frankly, going out and picking a fight with the Holy See in election year would be one of the silliest things any presidential candidate could do," he said

But Kerry will pick that fight because not only is he silly, he is egotistical and can't stand being criticized.

[CharlotteVRWC]

"In an "Esquire" Article, Satan was being interviewed. When asked why he ended up with so many new charges in Hell, Satan answered, "Jesus is an easy guy to love, but He's hard to live with, day after day..."."

Good one....Welcome to Free Republic.

[Socratic]

It appears that George Bush is more closely aligned with the Catholic Church than is his unworthy opponent.

[AMDG&BVMH]

"I'm not on very good terms with many of my relatives. "

Keep looking for those "teachable moments." ;)

We have some of those too; but it is getting harder for them to justify themselves than it used to be. We are not hearing about Bernardin's confusion in this article, but the clear teaching of the Church -- and the Bishops are actually teaching it.

[Dan from Michigan]

I never heard Gore got the Catholic vote in '00

He did 50-48 or something like that.