Well, so much for Kerry’s claims to be a Catholic. That’s the nice thing about Catholicism—there’s a central authority. None of this searching through records to see if something is true. If it comes from the Church, that’s what goes. It’s also encouraging to see that not only political motivations led to it—simply convictions against killing:

Balestrieri, a self-identified political independent, says that his actions come as a defender of the faith and Holy Eucharist from sacrilege and scandal, not as one focused on an electoral outcome. “Our victory can come as early as today: It would be for Sen. Kerry, who publicly calls himself a Catholic and yet in violation of Canon Law continues to receive Holy Communion, to repent of his grave sin and publicly recant his abortion advocacy.”