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There’s a big news story that started out in Rhode Island and is starting to make national headlines.  Democratic Congressman Patrick Kennedy (son of Ted Kennedy) told The Providence Journal, that Providence Bishop Thomas Tobin asked him to stop receiving holy communion at Catholic Mass because of Kennedy’s stance on abortion (he’s pro-choice).

One of the first places that Bishop Tobin went to be interviewed was MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews.  After More >