If it was only about rituals there wouldn't be the outcry from Catholics. It is a matter of Catholic faith that the Host is the actual Body of Christ and the wine is His actual blood. How can we watch that man dishonor Our Lord and not protest??
I view it as symbolic but even still it really doesn't matter. It IS GOD who has the final say. He sees Kerry for the fraud he is. I really doesn't matter.
Ideally he SHOULD be excommunicated but you know as well as I that he'll find a priest to go through the ritual.