Bishop of Spokane would give Kerry Eucharist

I apologize, this is a few days old, but I haven't seen it anywhere else. The Spokane Diocese has a newspaper where the bishop has a collumn. Anyway, this week he wrote about the contraversy. And FWIW, he's the vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, so he isn't too out of line.

The prophet Isaiah has that wonderful line about peace-making - turning swords into plowshares, spears into pruning hooks. In our present-day American society, particularly in regard to politics, I fear that we are reversing the situation, and taking God's great gift to our Church and using it as a weapon of divisiveness and destruction.

I speak, of course, about the matter of Catholic political figures who have taken a pro-choice position with regard to abortion legislation, and whether they should be allowed to receive Communion in our churches.