Canadian RC MP told to back off from church activity

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Mr. Comartin also recently taught marriage preparation courses with his wife but will no longer be able to do so.

“I have decided that Mr. Comartin is not to give marriage preparation sessions within this diocese,” Bishop Fabbro wrote.

A spokesman for the diocese said Mr. Comartin will still be able to attend mass and receive communion.

Father Gerry Compeau, the pastor of Mr. Comartin’s church, Our Lady of the Rosary in Windsor, Ont., said Mr. Comartin is “very friendly and courteous, and has a lot of respect for the clergy.”

“But I think he has to realize, like I have to realize, that we follow the church’s law, and I follow it and he should be following it.”