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NATION, Page 35American NotesABORTIONA Bishop Says No
"The harm you are doing by espousing the `pro-choice' view will
require great efforts to repair," San Diego Bishop Leo Maher wrote
last week to Lucy Killea, 67, a Democrat running in a special
election for California's state senate. He then applied a little
used sanction that denies Communion to Catholics who "obstinately
persist in manifest grave sin." Killea says she will abide by the
decree but will not change her position. She is the first political
candidate to receive this censure.
Catholics who take pro-choice stands have been particularly
frustrating to the nation's bishops, who have been asked to respond
decisively to dissenters. But a spokesman said it is highly
unlikely that Maher's precedent would become national Catholic
policy.