... the paper in an interview conducted Friday. Kennedy said the bishop had explained the penalty by telling him "that I am not a good practicing ... the Vatican, but the hierarchy of the Catholic church is unlikely to overturn a bishop, said Michael Sean Winters, a church observer and ... Catholic politicians who support abortion rights. Still, the bishop stopped short of ordering Kennedy not to receive ...

... receiving the sacrament. The AP reported: Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from ... escalates a bitter dispute between Tobin, an ultra orthodox bishop, and Kennedy, a son of the nation’s most famous Roman Catholic ... the paper in an interview conducted Friday. Kennedy said the bishop had explained the penalty by telling him “that I am not a good practicing ...

... being allowed communion because of his position on abortion. Statement of Bishop Thomas Tobin in Response to Congressman Patrick Kennedy&# ... ;s Published Interview of November 22, 2009 Bishop Tobin says: I am disappointed and really surprised that Congressman Patrick Kennedy ... 's shameless and disgraceful attacks on the Church. The bishop is charged with upholding Church teachings. The teachings of ...

... internal collapse. The Episcopal Diocese of Maine's Bishop Stephen T. Lane has said that a number of his congregations face & ... decreases in program and mission for the diocesan office itself, yet the bishop had time earlier this year to lobby the state ... A referendum by the state's voters turned this down, much to the bishop's disappointment. Virtue also reports that from the Episcopal ...

... a female pastor as the country's first openly homosexual bishop, just weeks after approving gay marriages. Anglicans snub Swedish ... (16 Jul 09)Eva Brunne, 55, was consecrated as the Bishop of Stockholm in a ceremony at Uppsala cathedral, just north of the ... , another female pastor, Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund, was ordained to take over as Bishop of Härnösand in northern Sweden. The ceremony ...

... whatever rules they make - but this wouldn't bother me so much if they were consistent. After all, when was the last time a bishop singled out someone for supporting what the Church itself labeled an "unjust war" ... Kennedy told the paper in an interview conducted Friday. Kennedy said the bishop had explained the penalty by telling him "that I am not a good practicing Catholic ...