[secret garden]

I clearly don’t see a problem with receiving Communion in a church, if you are a believer and accept the doctrine of what it means. Why would it matter?

[AnAmericanMother]

That's the problem.

Catholics believe that during the Eucharist the bread and wine becomes the actual Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, of Christ.

Most Episcopalians do not believe that. The very High Church Piskies do (I was one before I became a Catholic), but then you have the additional problem of the invalidity of Anglican orders due to the change in the consecration of bishops under Edward VI. No Apostolic Succession, no valid Eucharist.

So a Catholic receiving in another denomination would be acting a lie, so to speak, because you're acting as though it makes no difference -- when it does.

That's also why non-Catholics don't receive in the Catholic church, because they don't believe what Catholics believe and, again, it's acting a lie.

[Suzy Quzy]

Because Catholics don't believe what Episcopalians do...that's why. Catholics believs that Holy Communion IS the Body and Blood of Christ....Episcopalians just think of it as a SYMBOL of the Body and Blood of Christ......HUGE DIFFERENCE!!

May I ask what religion you are? I'm guessing not any Christian denomination or you wouldn't have been quite so cavalier about your response.