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Should Bishops Ask Officials to Skip Communion Over Abortion?

November 23, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy's bishop asked him to forgo communion because of his support for abortion rights. The vast majority of American Roman Catholic bishops have declined to make such requests, but a growing number are making headlines for doing so.

What do you think of the practice?

There are a lot of in-between positions here, so explain your vote in comments.

Should America's Roman Catholic bishops ask elected officials who support abortion rights to forgo Holy Communion, as Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy's bishop has?

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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