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I repeat, no church should deny anyone the right to communion. In those days all the church members knew each other and their personal life. Now days, the pastor or priest knows very little about his flock. So when communion is offered, who is he to deny anyone he does not even know. It is true that the Word of God does not change but circumstances change continually. Not only that but say a drunkard rapist robber later turned to the Lord but the pastor is not aware of his change. It would be wrong for him to deny this person communion. Did not Jesus himself sip wine with many sinners.

“I repeat, no church should deny anyone the right to communion.”

Communion is not a right, it is a memorial act of obedience: “Do this in remembrance of me,” that signifies a claim of unity with the Body of Christ.

Churches and purported church members who turn a blind eye to another purported member’s notorious (public) and unrepentant behavior are as much in rebellion against God as that individual, and equally subject to the Matt 7:21-23. Your argument is not with me (who has no authority over you, and no office to pass judgment on you, but nevertheless I do have a duty to confront you, in love, with the truth) but with the Author of Scripture. I leave you to Him.

You're confused and very mistaken. No one has a right to receive Communion and the Church certainly does have the authority to deny Communion to unrepentant public sinners.

Can. 915 Those upon whom the penalty of excommunication or interdict has been imposed or declared, and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin, are not to be admitted to holy communion.

Can. 916 Anyone who is conscious of grave sin may not celebrate Mass or receive the Body of the Lord without previously having been to sacramental confession, unless there is a grave reason and there is no opportunity to confess; in this case the person is to remember the obligation to make an act of perfect contrition, which includes the resolve to go to confession as soon as possible.

“I repeat, no church should deny anyone the right to communion. In those days all the church members knew each other and their personal life. Now days, the pastor or priest knows very little about his flock.”

So much the worse for congregations who have hirelings rather than shepherds of the flock.

John 10:11-16
“11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. 12 But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. 13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. 15 As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd. “

Whether such gatherings of strangers offer “communion to all” or limit it in some way hardly matters, since they have shown by their fruit that their communion is sterile.

Matthew 7:21-23
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’