In another article I read earlier today, Kerry's campaign has staffers who check out Catholic churches in advance of his attendance; they don't want any photos of Kerry being refused Communion by a priest.See also:So, for campaign purposes, for Kerry's "Communion photo ops," he has to go to a church other than the one he professes to be a devout member of.
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Silence won't work any longer
[Hugh Hewitt on high-stakes moment for Church, Kerry, the unborn]
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Posted on 03/31/2004 6:14:11 AM PST by RonDog
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Silence won't work any longer
Posted: March 31, 2004
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"People in Rome are becoming more and more aware there's a problem with John Kerry," a Vatican official – an American – told Time Magazine this week, "and a potential scandal with his apparent profession of his Catholic faith and some of his stances, particularly abortion."
When John Kerry attended Mass during his skiing-snowboarding-upbraiding-the secret-service-agent-falling-down-repeatedly vacation, and then jetted off to make a rare appearance in the United States Senate to vote against a bill defining an unborn child as, well, an unborn child, devout Catholics across the country noticed.
Now we learn from Time magazine that Kerry's avowed Catholicism is eliciting rebukes from Catholic officials, and not just those in faraway Italy.
"When Kerry campaigned in Missouri in February," Time also reported, "St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke publicly warned him 'not to present himself for Communion' – an ostracism that Canon Law 915 reserves for 'those who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin.'"
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