My theory is that many of these people are cultural catholics or E/C catholics at best.
Like did Teddy Kennedy actually go to Mass weekly when there were no cameras around? Just by way of example.
I am sure that actual proof of people being scandalized by this would have more of an affect then all the hot air and conjecture. That gives these men an out. We need the proof.
How about it Catholic Freepers? Let's put this to bed. We need names!
the Larsons go to Mass at “liberal” parishes in East Hartford, Conn. Not a place where Freepers would hang out. I do not know about Rep. Courtney.
In Shelton, Conn., they gave publicity to their 2 pro-abort Republican state reps on the parish website ... wrote a nice story about the parish visit to the capitol to oppose assisted suicide and chat with their fellow parishioner representative.
I do not know how one would define pro-abort in CT politics, since the legislature rarely votes on such things. Half the people that work at the diocesan office are pro-aborts. If the priest is a pro-abort, what to do?
“Representative Nicholas Mattiello of Cranston, the Democratic House majority leader, says that he was asked to take a break from serving as a lector at his church after changing his position and publicly supporting same-sex marriage.
State Senator William J. Conley Jr. of East Providence, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which approved the marriage bill, says a diocesan official asked him to resign as a trustee of La Salle Academy in Providence. The pastor of the East Providence parish where he was baptized, Conley says, denounced him from the pulpit as a “Judas.”
In fact, Kennedy apparently went to weekday Masses on Capitol Hill. And he certainly did receive when cameras were around. E.g., at Pope Benedict’s Mass at D.C. Stadium. (R.F.K. Stadium?)
In the 1980s, we had a pro-abortion politician in Maryland, Connie Morella, who was lector at St. Bartholomew’s parish in Bethesda. This went on for years and years. Cardinal Hickey (Democrat in his DNA) didn’t lift a finger. Eventually, a new pastor arrived, and he ordered her to stop serving as a lector. I don’t recall the issue of Communion coming up. This was before Cardinal Burke’s “discovery” of Canon 915. (I.e., Cardinal Burke “discovered” that Canon 915 isn’t about the divorced-and-remarried. It’s about ALL public sinners.)