It is a real problem when Catholic Bishops refuse candidates communion while they are running for high office. This is purely an attempt to control political process and has little to nothing to do with religious freedom.   This is why it is necessary to see if the loyalties of a potential judge is with the law or more with their own religious dogma.  The Bishops have made a real problem for Catholics in the judiciary or anywhere else.  They believe that their personal freedom of religion, not so much the parishioners  freedom of religion, is much more important than the laws of the land.  They have created their own monster.  Too bad that other Bishops did not stand up to these dogmatic reactionaries and chastise them for their political actions of refusing communion.  As it is, what one bishop sees as so horrible a sin in his diocese that he will refuse communion, another bishop does not see and allows communion.  We must not have our judges intimidated by reactionary bishops.