Church Nazi to Rep. Patrick Kennedy: "No cookie for you!"

In its latest effort to achieve global domination, the Catholic Church is no longer content to threaten homeless and abused women and children and is resorting to spiritual extortion of Catholic politicians to manipulate the political process. Happy Sunday, everyone!

From Yahoo News: PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published Sunday.

The decision by the outspoken prelate, reported on The Providence Journal's Web site, significantly escalates a bitter dispute between Tobin, an ultra orthodox bishop, and Kennedy, a son of the nation's most famous Roman Catholic family.

"The bishop instructed me not to take Communion and said that he has instructed the diocesan priests not to give me Communion," Kennedy told the paper in an interview conducted Friday.