A small group of Catholics were denied communion Sunday because they wore rainbow sashes in support of same-sex marriage to Mass at the St. Paul Cathedral. Minnesota Public Radio News reports the protest has been an annual event for a decade.
Each year organizers ask the archbishop for permission to receive communion while wearing the sash, but a St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese spokesman says that would be sacrilege.
Archdiocese spokesman Dennis McGrath says communion simply must not be used for a political statement.
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