[concerned about politics]

Read: no communion for the Democratic candidate for the White House, the Catholic John F. Kerry.

Democrats just do it for photo ops anyway. If they believed in God, they wouldn't be Democrats.

[sevry]

I mentioned this very thing on my own site:

Is Ratzinger just not reading his own memos?

[A.A. Cunningham]

The Kerry Affair: What Ratzinger Wanted from the American Bishops

[steplock]

When a Catholic does not share a candidate’s stand in favour of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.

sure sounds like leftist psycho-babble crap to me! GOD does not allow for "partial or proportionate" sins. At least I never saw that in a Bible.