Will Catholics Deny Communion to Gay Marriage Supporters?

U.S. Catholic Bishops have made a giant leap toward using Communion as their next political weapon, with Rhode Island’s bishop telling Rep. Patrick Kennedy that he is no longer welcome to receive Communion during Mass at any church in the entire state. The move by Bishop Thomas Tobin follows through on previous threats by many U.S. Catholic bishops that they would ban pro-choice and pro-gay politicians from partaking in one of the Church’s most important sacraments.

Rep.  Kennedy told the Providence Journal that Bishop Tobin has been targeting him for years by threatening to withhold Communion, mostly for his support for reproductive rights. Bishop Tobin finally followed through with those threats, in a move that’s being seen by many as the politicization of a Church practice that’s supposed to be seen as the epitome of peace.

“The bishop instructed me not to take communion and said that he has instructed the diocesan priests not to give me communion,” Kennedy said.

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