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To: A.A. Cunningham
Chaput said, "I didn't ever say Senator Kerry shouldn't receive communion."

Why not?

4 posted on 03/02/2005 9:20:11 PM PST by Sloth (I don't post a lot of the threads you read; I make a lot of the threads you read better.)
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To: Sloth
Why not?

Ask him, why not?: shepherd@archden.org

8 posted on 03/02/2005 9:33:06 PM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: Sloth
Why not?

Because he's not Kerry's bishop, and has no authority unless Kerry were to present himself for communion in his diocese. Accordingly that degree of specificity would have been out of place. Moreover, it would have been counter-productive, needlessly implying that Chaput's preoccupied with the status of a certain single person, rather than the princple.

13 posted on 03/03/2005 6:49:54 AM PST by Romulus (Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?)
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To: Sloth

Because Kerry is not a member of his diocese.


26 posted on 03/03/2005 9:53:32 PM PST by RobbyS (,)
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