Question Of The Day: Communion

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) says that Bishop Thomas J. Tobin has forbidden him from receiving communion because he supports abortion rights. Is this the right thing for bishops to do, given the church's views on abortion, or an unnecessary political statement?

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