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To: Lane3 who wrote (51737)	6/26/2004 8:48:22 PM
From: gamesmistress	Respond to of 793681

"Let sleeping dogs li" is the message I got from them. I got the same impression. But keep in mind this was the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. I can't say I've kept up with this - I'm a lapsed Catholic myself - but what the American Bishops would like to do and what the Pope says to do are often very different things. The American bishops don't want the bad PR that might result. The Pope won't care about that. OTOH, the Pope might not even address the issue unless something big brought it to his attention. Kerry could be a test case on this, but I have no idea how likely that is. BTW, I don't really care if the bishops refuse communion to a politician or not. It's just that I can't sympathize with someone who has "breaking the law" (canon, civil or criminal) all along, and suddenly someone calls him on it. Usually he thinks he should be "grandfathered" in because it's not fair to change the rules at this late date. :-)