Sounds like we're talking about eating meat on Friday here! What a tepid, meaningless response. Even if they let some lefty priests give Kerry communion, the bishops have an obligation to explain that respect for life is the BASIS of all Christian morality, including those "social teachings" Kerry supposedly upholds.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/kerry/articles/2004/04/12/kerry_celebrates_with_communion/
If that's an accurate quote of what Kerry said, Kerry clearly does not understand the Catholic faith. Abortion - the vast collection of bizarre policies pushing the culture-of-death depopulation agenda of secular humanism - is not an issue which Catholics may claim to be merely private or "separate" or whatever goofy, fuzzy, liberal, secular humanist jargon Kerry wants to appeal to.