Governor Andrew Cuomo...

...of New York and his wife, Kerry Kennedy, divorced in 2005 after 13 years of marriage. From all appearances, the governor continues to be a devoted father to his three children.

In the Times this morning it says that Mr. Cuomo, when not staying at the Executive Mansion in Albany, lives with his girlfriend at her home in Westchester County.

And in the Bizarro World of the Catholic Church this is simply unacceptable:

Edward N. Peters, a professor at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, who last year was named by Pope Benedict XVI as a consultant to the Vatican court, the Apostolic Signatura, called the governor’s living situation “public concubinage” in his blog on Jan. 4, and said in a recent interview that Mr. Cuomo, who is Roman Catholic, must refrain from taking communion under canon law.

“The governor, with complete freedom, is publicly acting in violation of a fundamental moral expectation of the church,” Dr. Peters wrote in response to written questions from Cybercast News Service, a conservative Web site, which published his remarks Monday.

“His taking holy communion,” Dr. Peters wrote, “is objectively sacrilegious.”

“If he approaches for holy communion,” he added, “he should be denied the august sacrament.”

This is the same church, remember, that is facing so many "challenges" with its own clergy.

Again, the Yiddish word for it is chutzpah.