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Thanks for the PING, NYer!

The word is getting out...

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Politics cloud Kerry's Easter plans
Washington Times ^ | 4/03/04 | Julia Duin
Posted on 04/05/2004 2:34:07 AM PDT by kattracks

Easter is this coming Sunday and where Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic candidate for president, will attend church suddenly has become a political issue.
    If the Roman Catholic senator sticks to his home Boston Archdiocese, he faces the implied threat from Archbishop Sean O'Malley of being refused Communion.
    Archbishop O'Malley has said since the summer that pro-choice Catholic politicians are in a state of grave sin and cannot properly take Communion, though he mentioned neither Mr. Kerry nor Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, another Massachusetts Democrat.
    Two months ago, St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke said Mr. Kerry "must not present himself for Communion" at any church in the city. However, "I might give him a blessing or something," the archbishop added.
    Mr. Kerry was in St. Louis on March 28, but he sidestepped the Communion issue by attending New Northside Missionary Baptist Church, where he quoted a few verses from the second chapter of James.
    Yesterday, Mr. Kerry again worshipped at a Protestant congregation: Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church in Dorchester, Mass.
    "We're thankful that there's going to be a revolution in this country ... a new movement," the Rev. Gregory Groover saidfrom the pulpit during the Palm Sunday service. "And we say, God, bring him on, the next president of the United States."
    The Kerry campaign has declined comment on his faith and his Easter plans...
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Ah, yes, what a quandry. Easter. The one Sunday we Catholics are required to receive Eucharist, after going to Confession, of course.

Kerry has a problem. If he is recognized in the confessional and doesn't make a complete confession he's not supposed to go.

Hmmmm.... Practicing, orthodox Catholics don't take kindly to politicians wanting the rules bent for them.

"We're thankful that there's going to be a revolution in this country ... a new movement," the Rev. Gregory Groover saidfrom the pulpit during the Palm Sunday service. "And we say, God, bring him on, the next president of the United States."

Why is it that this kind of blatant politicking is allowed by the IRS in "black" churches, but not in other churches?

Frankly, I think it should be allowed, but in all churches, not just black ones.

Well, from what my nephew told me about the Eastern Orthodox Church, unless you are a confessed member in good standing of the Church you may not receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist( that is what they call communion).

So, if kerry went to one of their Easter services then... he would have an "excuse" for not receiving communion.

So, if "kerry lurkers" are out there... you heard it from me on FR. LOL!