It is absurd. There is NO WAY to justify this. But nothing is going to be done by this conference but to announce that if you are pro-choice you will be given Communion but your soul is in great peril. Then the politicans will say, "I don't FEEL that my soul is in peril and it is between me a God." That will be the end of it.
Yes, indeed. And by giving Kerry (and other pro-death politicians) a pass on this, it gives aid and comfort to others to follow their example. Bishops and cardinals who tolerate the pro-death politicians give rise to grave scandal in the church.
So Kerry doesn't think the unborn are real human persons with rights and, hence, they can be snuffed out. Suppose it were Jews or Blacks he didn't think were real human persons???
The election of Kerry as president will be not only a disaster for American society for four years. It will be a monstrous disaster for Western civilization and the whole world. Imagine Supreme Court Justices appointed by John Kerry !!! Imagine his social policies ! Secular humanist Socialism without restraint.
If you can publicly oppose the teachings of the Church in power politics, what significance is there left to being Catholic? That makes no sense. The teaching on abortion is not some esoteric theological mystery. Catholics are not the only ones who oppose abortion. Kerry's public rebuke of the Church is insulting and degrading to Catholics. If elected as president, Kerry will do more damage to Catholic culture than other public figure. He will institutionalize anti-life "liberal" Catholicism Lite (to the delight of the media).
The same liberals and non-Christians who bashed Mel Gibson for being Catholic, will lionize Kerry and worship at his feet. This will be very damaging to American culture. But the effect of Kerry's policies will not just promote the culture of death in America. He will export this vision abroad. Any bishop who thinks this is fine and OK is morally insane. Deranged. Diabolically disoriented. Catholicism will be completely and utterly nullified as a moral voice for all practical purposes.
You know it, and I know it, so why don't they just get it the hell overwith. Maybe they're waiting for summer. I hate to say it, but the chances of anything happening are 1 in 100.