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>A priest in Rhode Island, Reverend Richard Bucci, made national headlines last week by banning lawmakers who supported the state's abortion rights bill from receiving communion at his parish.
>The 72-year-old priest recently passed out fliers to parishioners listing the names of all 44 members of the legislature who voted for the Reproductive Privacy Act , which was signed into law last spring.
>This statement didn't sit well with State Representative Carol Hagan McEntee, a Democrat who championed Rhode Island's law to extend the statute of limitations for child sex abuse survivors.
>"The Catholic Church needs to take a look at themselves and ask why they are closing churches and losing worshipers," Casimiro wrote in a statement to CBS News.
>In the immediate aftermath of distributing the flier, Bucci told the Providence Journal that local lawmakers were upset because their names and votes were made public: "If they are proud of what they have done, why do they want to keep it a secret?"
Taking a stand against abortion is good, but why aren't these people just excommunicated?
The article seems to try to spin him as defending pedophilia, I'm not sure what the original context was. As morbid as it is, abortion is literally killing a child and pedophilia, while unacceptable, is not.
Roman Catholic clergy need to be extra cautious when commenting on sexual crimes, especially in New England.