Summary
From Boston to Sacramento, bishops have been speaking out on the issue of withholding communion to Catholic politicians who openly support pro-abortion and gays and lesbians rights policies, like Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry. But New York's cardinal, Edward Egan, has been conspicuously silent, participating quietly in a recent national bishops conference that issued a statement trying to calm the roiling waters. Here, Barrett says that both Cardinal Egan and the pope have big time problems with both Bush and Kerry but stresses that the cardinal will have his defining moment in the 2004 race for the White House.
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Kerry's Catholic Question
Judas received communion at the Last Supper-from Christ himself, no less-but in some Catholic dioceses across America, John Kerry can't. The first pro-choice Catholic to ever become the presidential candidate of amajor party, and the only Catholic nominee since John Kennedy 44 years ago, Kerry is held to a higher standard by the hierarchy, and that's made the communion rail a political danger zone for him.
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