[Kevin Curry]

The willingness to see error and to stand against it is a good thing. >i>I wasn't so much critiquing your post as I was building a comment from it.

I am a Christian, but I am not Catholic, and I would never presume to show up at a Catholic service and demand the Sacrament. I believe Blair has helped to create a silly issue.

[jude24]

I am a Christian, but I am not Catholic, and I would never presume to show up at a Catholic service and demand the Sacrament. I believe Blair has helped to create a silly issue.

Ditto here.

I've visited Catholic Masses a few times, just to get a feel for what it's all about. I would never have gone forward to receive Communion, knowing what they believe that entails. It would be an insult, both to what I believe (that its merely a memorial service), and to what they believe (that it is the literal Body and Blood of Christ.)

[lugsoul]

No one said anything about demanding. It is about being refused, and condemned.

[F16Fighter]

"I am a Christian, but I am not Catholic, and I would never presume to show up at a Catholic service and demand the Sacrament. I believe Blair has helped to create a silly issue.

I don't quite recall the Scripture where Christ interrupts the last supper in the middle of the pouring of wine and breaking bread by questioning the participants brand of 'Christianity'...

How is Blair to blame for expanding the paradigm of 'Catholicism'? Everyone knows the CC is famous for extending courtesy and special privilidges to the elite anyway.

And how else could anyone explain front row center seats at services to devout 'Catholics' as Teddy Kennedy and Tom Daschle??