[Saundra Duffy]

One time a friend of mine, who happens to be Deaf and a God-fearing Christian, was attending a Catholic Church Mass. When it was time for communion, she went forward like others around her. The person giving the communion REFUSED her and she turned around and went back to her seat wondering what she had done wrong.

BUT JOHN KERRY CAN TAKE COMMUNION?!!! And Catholics don't care, I guess.

[AMDG&BVMH]

"BUT JOHN KERRY CAN TAKE COMMUNION?!!! And Catholics don't care, I guess."

Yes, we do care . . .

[Conservative til I die]

One time a friend of mine, who happens to be Deaf and a God-fearing Christian, was attending a Catholic Church Mass. When it was time for communion, she went forward like others around her. The person giving the communion REFUSED her and she turned around and went back to her seat wondering what she had done wrong.

I'm guessing, by the way you phrased the above, that your friend was not a Catholic. Well, then she doesn't have to wonder any more what she did wrong. Non-Catholics are not allowed to receive Communion at all, regardless of what John Kerry does.

Frankly, orthodox Catholic consider such behavior, accidental or not, offensive and disrespectful of our traditions.