Kerry receives Holy Communion? Divorced,remarried.

Reuters ^ | 3/14/04 | me

[mdittmar]

See last paragraph.

He also attended services at a Roman Catholic church in a working-class neighborhood of Allentown, where he took Holy Communion but did not speak.

[mdittmar]

What are the current views of the Church on a divorced man who remarries receiving Communion?

Maybe I'm been out of the loop to long.

[airborne]

Did he go to confession first?

[RWR8189]

Not to mention using his capacity as a public servant to further the cause of killing babies...

[cebadams]

Another one for your list.

[spunkets]

He can't do it unless he has an annulment. That's a document that says his first marriage never happened. He's pro-death. That trumps adultery, so he's full of it from the bottom of his wretched commie soul.

[mombonn]

Why so surprised? clintbilly took Communion, and he wasn't even Catholic.

[terycarl]

that would be a real no-no unless his first marriage were to be declared invalid by annulment...he could be comitting serious sin in the eyes of the church and therefore in the eyes of God

[Paul Atreides]

Does Tubby Kennedy take Communion?

[annyokie]

He can't until he has an annulment, which he doesn't.

[wagglebee]

No Kennedy just drinks all the wine and then goes out for a drive and maybe a swim.

[Smartass]

Ketchup cleanses Kerry's sin!

[mdittmar]

Just wondering because my dad hasn't receved Holy Communion for 29 years,and know it hurts him.

kerry is a pos.

[Cicero]

He is not eligible to receive Holy Communion. It's a disputed matter whether or not the priest should offer it to him.

Ordinarily, a priest has no way of knowing whether communicants have confessed their sins or have some kind of impediment to receiving communion. In the case of a famous man like Kerry, the priests around the Boston Archdiocese should know by now that he does not have an annulment. Whether a priest in Scranton would be expected to know that is another matter. The news media do not go out of their way to publicize such matters.

There's also some regretable hesitation on the part of some priests to "make a scene" if a famous person comes up to receive communion. There was a regretable instance when Cardinal Law gave communion some years ago to Teddy Kennedy, although he must have known that Kennedy did not have an annulment at that time.

But basically, it's the responsibility of the person going to communion not to desecrate the sacrament by receiving it unworthily. Receiving unworthily can only damage rather than help the communicant.

[freedom4me]

Although he had two daughters with his first wife, his marriage was, in fact, annulled.

I've never been able to figure out how a couple could have two children and the marriage then be annulled. Doesn't an annulment mean the marriage was never consummated?

[Jewels1091]

I thought the new wife paid LOTS for an annulment, I read somewhere she wouldn't marry him unless he got one, so of course, he did. Now, I'm not Catholic, but if you get an annulment, that says the marriage never happened right???? Are you making your children 'bastards'? Cause if the marriage 'never happened' how could the kids be of married parents?????

[Wally_Kalbacken]

It's Chinatown, Jake...

[Paul Atreides]

Turkey baster?

[Ronaldus Magnus]

My guess is that the Kerry campaign has decided to attempt to bait the Catholic Church into excommunicating him so he can become some sort of martyr to civic secularism.

[OMalley]

I cant help but wonder how long he can get away with repeatedly spitting in the face of God. Has this man have no fear at all?!

[MinuteGal]

If there is an annulment, the innocent children are NOT considered bastards by the church or anyone else except sickos.

Leni