WASHINGTON - Growing a widening rift, Rep.. Patrick J. Kennedy, a Rhode Island Democrat, said on Sunday that the Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence had instructed him to refrain from receiving Communion Because of the Congressman's stance is abortion.
Rep. Kennedy said that Bishop Thomas J. Tobin 'instructed me not to take Communion and said that he has instructed the Diocesan priests not to give me Communion, "according to The Providence Journal, Which first reported the article.
But Michael K Guilfoyle a spokesman for the Diocese, said Sunday that the Bishop has "never addressed matters relative to public officials receiving Holy Communion with Pastors of the Diocese of Providence."
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