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America's Political Theater of the Absurd; Blame the Bishops
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Apr 06, 2004 04:21pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, April 6, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | America's Political Theater of the Absurd; Blame the Bishops
The America Spectator
In America's political theater of the absurd, Protestant politicians receive communion from Catholic priests while Catholic politicians take communion from Protestant ministers. In 1998, Bill Clinton, a Baptist, slipped into the communion line at a Catholic Church in South Africa. John Kerry, a Catholic, took communion this past Palm Sunday at an African Methodist Episcopal Church. Clinton spent Palm Sunday in 1995 soaking up a standing ovation from Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony and his congregation in Los Angeles. Kerry spent this Palm Sunday soaking up an endorsement from pastor Gregory Groover. Normally opposed to the mixing of pastors and politics, Kerry didn't mind receiving Groover's endorsement from the pulpit.
There are two Protestants in the race, an official one and an unofficial one. Kerry is the anti-Papal one, protesting the teachings of the Catholic Church in a manner befitting Martin Luther. Kerry's reception of communion at an African Methodist Episcopal Church is appropriate: he is more in communion with the teachings of that church than his own. As Kerry brazenly violates Church law, canon law explicitly forbids Catholics from receiving communion in Protestant churches, it is not clear if he is actively baiting his own church or just considers its prelates too feckless to pull the plug on his show of Catholicism while disobeying its teachings. It is a measure of his contempt and their carelessness that as the American Catholic bishops (with a few exceptions) sit on their hands Kerry takes communion at a Protestant church. Would Kerry need to preside at a Methodist-Episcopalian service before they took they took action? |
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