I thought Kerry had been ex-communicated
Keery lives a lie - does it matter to him or anyone else?
Apparently not.
"An official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has claimed that a Californian canon lawyer seeking a formal decree of heresy against Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry of Massachusetts has misrepresented his contact with the Vatican office."
Kerry "excommunication" scam exposed
Church teaching is that if you behave like Kerry, you have "excommunicated" yourself. That means, that although you go through the motions, it doesn't really count.
And since this is public, rather than private, behavior, plenty of priests wouldn't give him communion (if he was so foolish as to come to my parish, not only would my pastor refuse him communion, but he might state publically why!)- but still plenty will, either because they disagree with the teachings or don't want to cause problems.
In the great sorting out after death, God will know who was for him, who wasn't and who caused other people to fall because of bad behaviors when they were in positions of authority...
It is the rarest of things for the church to do a formal excommunication.