Wafer Watch: Part 37

We told you this would rear it's head again. Monsignor J. Gaston Hebert, diocesan adminstrator for the Diocese of Little Rock, takes pro-choice politicians to task in the pages of the Arkansas Catholic.

"For the Catholic politician to say that he/she is personally opposed to this grave evil but supports it in the light of a woman's `right' to abort her child would indicate a lack of compliance with the basic teachings of the Church,'' Hebert rights.

Hebert also says that: "If the politician will not change his stance, he places himself outside of `eucharistic consistency' and should not receive Communion.''

"Eucharistic consistency"?

Oh, almost forgot. In what seems to be an obligatory invocation of evil historical figures, Hebert implicitly compares pro-choice politicians to Hitler. (Bishop Tobin of Providence, you may remember, compared Rudy Giuliani to Pontius Pilate.)

"Had Hitler been a Catholic and made known that he was killing Jews and others to create a super race, would I have denied him Communion? I pray that I would have had the courage to do so."

Do I hear a Joseph Stalin reference coming?