"I wonder if it will make waves at the Republican Convention, where (at least) three pro-abortion Catholics are expected to give major speeches: Giuliani, Pataki, and Schwarzenegger."
Doubtful. This is obviously a ban on Democratic candidates only, as seen by the sentence below:
"While never mentioning Sen. John Kerry by name, the memo implicitly aims at the pro-choice Catholic Massachusetts senator and presidential candidate. "
I guess it's OK to be pro-abortion if you include a (r) after your name?
Church + Politics = Always good for a hypocritical chuckle.
Giuliani, Pataki, and Schwarzenegger are not running for President. They didn't plan photo-ops receiving Communion either. Certain people in the Church DID come down on Arlen Spector(r), and on Rick Santorum(r) for supporting him. Before he died, Cardinal O'Connor locked horns with Giuliani all the time. It just happens that one party has support of this intrinsic evil as part of their platform, while the other party has resistance to it as part of theirs. But even so, the Church doesn't deal with the "party". The policy is to deal with the individual views of each politician...