Some Catholics pushing hard for Communion bans

From: Sunday Gazette-Mail | Date: June 6, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Presidential hopeful John Kerry and other U.S. politicians who support abortion rights aren't the only Roman Catholics to face possible exclusion from Holy Communion.

Every day, divorced Catholics who've remarried without first securing a church annulment are banned from receiving the sacrament.

Gay rights supporters wearing rainbow-colored sashes also have been turned away by bishops who don't want the sacrament used for political statements.

And six years ago, John Prenger was notified that he, too, was being barred. He'd left the priesthood to marry after 20 years of service in the Diocese ...

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