[IrishRainy]

But he IS telling Church officials what to do -- namely, to butt out of his life, don't tell him what a "good Catholic" is or isn't supposed to do, and don't excommunicate him merely because he refuses to follow the laws of the Church.

If a Catholic who was married in the Church later gets divorced, he is not allowed to marry again in the Church unless he receives an anulment of the first marriage. If he doesn't remarry in the Church, he is not allowed to receive the sacrament of Communion until he rectifies that situation.

If Kerry has known all along that his marriage to Te-ray-sa is not valid, yet he has continued to receive Communion, that is a mortal sin.

I for one believe this issue should be pursued vigorously. If the above situation is found to be the case, he should be instantly excommunicated by the Archbishop since he is obviously a religious fraud as well as just a fraud in general.

[Notwithstanding]

Telling refusal from the main thread article:

"On March 23, 2003, the Providence Journal-Bulletin said that Kerry ‘will not say whether he obtained an annulment of his first marriage….’ "