If only more churches did this. People should not be allowed to claim something they are not. If you are catholic then that means you are not supposed to support abortion. The I separate my beliefs from my professional life is cop out. If you claim to be a particular faith then your professional life should reflect that as well you do not put God aside when it become inconvenient. I think the Bishop is a brave man and hopefully he is not the only doing this. Politicians shouldn't be allowed to pretend to be of a particular faith without consequences. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1942082,00.html(PROVIDENCE, R.I.) — Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.The decision by the outspoken prelate, reported on The Providence Journal's Web site, significantly escalates a bitter dispute between Tobin, an ultra orthodox bishop, and Kennedy, a son of the nation's most famous Roman Catholic family. "The bishop instructed me not to take Communion and said that he has instructed the diocesan priests not to give me Communion," Kennedy told the paper in an interview conducted Friday.