I hate to be the realist, but there are no winners in this.
Kerry is a loser, regardless of this situation.
Those controlling the Church, who are bad enough for letting 31 years lapse, and doing nothing, will only cause the Church to look poor publicly, no matter what they do.
If they take the correct action, the public vilification from the secularists will be bad.
If they are restrained, or hold out, then truer damage is done.
And both of those actions are reflected upon the laity as well. Which is all the more reason to condemn the original loser in the first place. As much as I have an issue with the Princes of the Church for not dealing with the life issue more forcefully, for all these years, what amount of intelligence, and prudence would it have taken for any one of them to pull that a$$h*le aside, and warn him off of the Public prostitution of his ETHNICITY (he obviously has no faith) in trolling for votes?
The Church, in Boston, traded theology for politics (Power) years ago.
With all due respect, I didn't know Mr. Kerry KOHN was trolling for the Bohemian vote.
And yes he's Bohemian. That's where his paternal grand-pappy was from, Bohemia. (And he has ZERO Irish in his blood.)
An aside; I don't give a hoot that his grand-dad converted to Catholicism from Judaism, that's irrelevant. But Mr Kohn keeps denying his true heritage. That IMO is repugnant. Why is he ashamed of being Bohemian???