My wife, a Catholic, said that John Kerry needed to go into the confession booth ... and not come out.
On the question about stem cell research, Kerry showed how little Catholicism he retains. He waxed rhapsodic about how wonderful it was for women to be able to exercise their "Constitutional" rights, while between the lines, he was saying that grinding up babies was medically a good thing.
He cited Michael J. Fox, Christopher Reeve, and others. Yes, I sympathize with them, but there are enough medically miraculous materials in umbilical chords and placentas, that we do not have to "harvest" the frozen embryos that he described in ghoulish greed.