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By Diogenes ( articles ) | May 21, 2004

John Allen's story on Pilarczyk has been bouncing around the mailboxes for a week.

An American archbishop from a key "battleground state" has entered the flap over John Kerry and Communion, saying that for now he would "give him the benefit of the doubt" and not deny the pro-choice Democratic presidential candidate the Eucharist.

Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of Cincinnati made the comment in a May 7 interview with NCR in Rome.

In response to which the formidable Donna Bethell put the following question:

Help me out here. Just exactly what is the "doubt" of which Kerry is to receive the benefit?

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