Connie Statz on AIDS discrimination

Quote of the Day: Connie Statz, Catholic laywoman from Minnesota

"That really hurt me more than anything else, because that's part of being Catholic. That's part of the sacrament."

-- Connie Statz, 50, who attended the 19th annual National Catholic HIV/AIDS Ministry Conference in mid-July at Loyola University Chicago, describing how she still feels rejected 13 years after being told by a priest at her rural Minnesota church that her AIDS diagnosis prevented her from drinking wine at Communion. She was quoted by the Chicago Tribune.