Pope John Paul II has said that in situations where there is not a Roman Catholic church nearby, Roman Catholics are permitted to receive communion in an Orthodox church
I know that.
ONLY Orthodox Christians may receive the communion in the Orthodox Church.
The Roman Catholics are told by their priest that they can... but that is not correct.
My nephew is a convert to Orthodoxy and he told me a story of a couple of Roman Catholic women who came into visit an Orthodox Church in a city in the Southern USA.. the Church is part of the Orthodox Church in America. They identified themselves to the deacon as Roman Catholics and were told by the priest, that ONLY confessed and fasting Orthodox Christians may recieve communion.
In fact, when we attended the lovely ceremony when my nephew was brought into the Orthodox Church... I saw that sentence written in a bulletin type paper that was given us.
It is not really OK to go to a church and assume that your own priest at your home Church, makes rules for the church you are visiting. Especially since you are a guest, not a member of the religion.
Perhaps the Pope did tell his members that. However, I cannot imagine he would say something that the Orthodox would NOT agree to.
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That was nice of him, did he bother to ask the Orthodox first? Only Orthodox Christians are allowed to accept Eucharist from Orthodox priests, zero wiggle room. Any who accept it otherwise, do so under false pretense before the eyes of God, thus they nullify any effects of the Eucharist.