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I was once told that if the Catholic Chirch paid tax on all the property it owns in NY, that isn’t used for church purposes we wouldn’t have to pay a sales tax. I’m fed up with these prelates sticking their noses where they don’t belong. If they can’t abide by separation of church and state, take their exemption away.
“PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.
The decision by the outspoken prelate, reported on The Providence Journal's Web site, significantly escalates a bitter dispute between Tobin, an ultra orthodox bishop, and Kennedy, a son of the nation's most famous Roman Catholic family.
"The bishop instructed me not to take Communion and said that he has instructed the diocesan priests not to give me Communion," Kennedy told the paper in an interview conducted Friday.
Kennedy said the bishop had explained the penalty by telling him "that I am not a good practicing Catholic because of the positions that I've taken as a public official," particularly on abortion” …cont…
ttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/22/rep-patrick-kennedy-banne_n_366750.html.
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