The Vatican Replies

Catholic[?] Kerry Watch has the rundown on the CDF's statement on the Ratzinger memo. This from Fr. Augustine T. DiNoia, undersecretary to Cardinal Ratzinger.

The memo was certainly not intended to clear the way for Catholics to vote for candidates who are in favor of laws permitting abortion or euthanasia, but rather to clarify that the simple act of voting for such candidates might not per se justify one's exclusion from Holy Communion," said [DiNoia].

Read the whole Catholic News Service article/interview here.