Which, I suppose, would also explain the Church's condemnation of capital punishment. Yet nobody is talking about denying the sacraments to a politician who supports that.
And divorce is specifically condemned in Christ's own words in Matthew and Mark, and those like Kerry (or Gingrich and Reagan for that matter) who divorce and remarry are living adulterous lives. Yet we don't condemn those who support divorce. In fact we cheer them on as they make divorce easier and provide tax incentives for those who destroy their families. So by all means deny those who support abortion rights access to Communion, I don't have a problem with that. But advocate the same for those who support other positions that are contrary to church dogma, like capital punishment and divorce. It's only right, wouldn't you agree?
Anti-capital punishment is not a dogma of the Catholic Church. Never was. Never will be.
Actually, that is this particular pope and from what I've read of it he condemns it only circumstantially to exclude places where it cannot be guaranteed that the offender will not be released. It is also the case that the majority of popes before him have not condemned it similarly. Abortion, on the other hand, has been consistently denounced by the church's theologians since roughly the first or second centuries.
And divorce is specifically condemned in Christ's own words in Matthew and Mark, and those like Kerry (or Gingrich and Reagan for that matter) who divorce and remarry are living adulterous lives.
The traditional way "out" of this in catholic circles is an annulment, which can legitimately occur under several circumstances, among them certain cases where adultery has already happened.
Yet we don't condemn those who support divorce.
You may not. Others, including most catholics, tend to believe that divorce procedures have become far too lax and should require some form of cause to be stated.