Unmarried Gov. Cuomo is guilty of sacrilege and should be denied Communion, Vatican adviser says
BY Leo Standora
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
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Newly-minted Gov. Cuomo and girlfriend Sandra Lee attend services in early January.
Gov. Cuomo committed a "gravely sacrilegious" act by receiving Communion while holding certain political beliefs and living with his girlfriend, Sandra Lee, a Vatican canon law adviser said Tuesday.
Edward Peters told CNSNews that Cuomo, who supports abortion and gay marriage, should be denied Communion if he tries to take the sacrament again "as long as he persists in such conduct."
Peters zeroed in on the Mass, at Albany's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, that Cuomo attended a day after his Jan. 1 inauguration. He received Communion from Bishop Howard Hubbard at the Mass.
Cuomo went to the Mass with his three daughters from his first marriage and his "live-in girlfriend," Lee, host of the Food Network program "Semi-Homemade Cooking With Sandra Lee."
In his sermon, Hubbard praised Cuomo and Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy, who was at the Mass with his wife.
But Peters, a consultant to the Vatican's highest court, said the bishop was wrong to do so.
Hubbard's remarks, he said, constituted "a failure in pastoral care," largely for what he "did not say, than for what he did say."
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