The Pope: still Catholic
And it seems to have filtered down to the bishops, too:
The Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned [Rep.] Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion following his attacks on the Catholic Church last month.
Kennedy slammed the church for opposing the Democrats’ pro-abortion nationalized health care plan in October.
Lest you think this action was unnecessarily precipitate, you might want to revise that estimate:
The Roman Catholic bishop of Rhode Island says he asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy to stop receiving Holy Communion in 2007 because of the lawmaker’s stand on what he called moral issues.
Emphasis added. Kennedy evidently declined the bishop’s request, on the basis of — well, your guess is as good as mine. DaTechguy blames the Prince of Darkness:
Kennedy’s soul and a bunch of others are what he is after. Of course it’s hard to convince people who don’t believe in the soul that it could be his reason.
Of which there are an abundance of late, I note.
datechguy »
22 November 2009 · 11:34 am
Thanks for the link, and yes I would submit that if you are a believing Catholic you believe in the devil, it is not an optional belief, I expanded on it a while back.
http://datechguy.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/required-catholic-belief-the-devil-and-hell/
It is what it is.
paulsmos »
22 November 2009 · 11:52 am
About damn time the Church decided to admonish these pro-abortion, so-called Catholic politicians….time to bring back the Spanish Inquisition for these types.
P.S. and no comfy chair, either
Cary »
22 November 2009 · 5:48 pm
Rhode Island always sounds like it should
be out in the ocean somewhere.
With lots of roads on it.
McGehee »
23 November 2009 · 6:55 am
Rhode hard and put away whet.