Florida: Judge Should Be Denied Communion?

You may remember that a judge in Florida ruled that a 13-year-old girl in foster care was mature enough to make her own decision about whether she should have an abortion or carry her pregnancy to term. Some now want him denied communion at whatever Catholic church he attends.

The Tallahassee Democrat reports:

Don Kazimir, who works for the diocese's Respect Life Office, which opposes abortion and the death penalty, called Juvenile Judge Ronald Alvarez's office on Wednesday to ask which church the judge attends, The Palm Beach Post reported in Friday's editions. Kazimir said he wanted to speak with Alvarez's priest, but the judge has not returned the message left by Kazimir.

Alvarez was angry about the call. "This isn't a religious state yet," he said. Alvarez said it was unfair for any judge, who is supposed to uphold the law, to feel pressure to follow the doctrine of his church, synagogue or mosque.

Evidently Judge Alvarez has stopped attending his Catholic church out of anger over the church's cover-up of the sexual abuse of children. Still, if he were still a practicing Catholic then it is conceivable that Don Kazimir could have contacted his church to pressure the priest to deny Alvarez communion. Kazimir is just an employee, remember, but he has assumed the authority to lecture priests on what they should be doing. How much farther will conservative Catholics in America go?

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