Abortion and communion
It is unfair for any Catholic Church leader to expect all Catholics who hold public office to fall on their swords on the abortion issue. Catholic candidates are elected - as all candidates are - by a majority of the persons voting and it is delusional to assume all of these are either Catholic or support Catholic teachings on abortion. I respect a candidate who says he/she personally deplores abortion but supports a woman's right to choose. Spokesmen for the Church may urge communion be denied to Catholics who do not toe the absolutist line, but such a position is not likely to be widely accepted - among the faithful or the clergy.
#177 (04-26)
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