CARDINAL EXPLAINS EXCOMMUNICATION WARNING

From: The Boston Globe | Date: June 18, 1990| Author: Associated Press | Copyright information

NEW YORK - Cardinal John J. O'Connor said yesterday that he intended last week to prevent, rather than advocate, the excommunication of Roman Catholic politicians who support abortion rights.

The reverse interpretation was widely held after an article by Cardinal O'Connor appeared in Catholic New York, the weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York.

"We don't want to see people excommunicated," Cardinal O'Connor said at a news conference after Mass yesterday at St....