[morphing libertarian]

this surprises me since the church gives communion to unrepentant people who support and fund abortions.

[Mrs. Don-o]

They're not supposed to. The Apostolic Signatura (Catholic equivalent of Supreme Court) ruled a number of years ago that abortion-supporting politicians as well as other manifest, public, unrepentant accomplices/accessories to this crime, are not to be offered the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar.

This is a ruling on the application of Canon 915 and 916.

Abortion-cooperators who come to receive Holy Communion unlawfully, are guilty of sacrilege; as are those --- bishops, priests, deacons --- who give them Communion.

They all need to confess and repent. There's a a sacrament for that, and it's not Holy Communion. Card. Burke, who made this ruling, has since been put out of his office by Pope Francis, but the ruling has never been rescinded.

So there's a whole lot of sacrilege going on.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

>>this surprises me since the church gives communion to unrepentant people who support and fund abortions.<<

I’m a traditionalist Catholic who firmly believes that one of the PRIMARY causes of the degradation and disintegration of western culture has been the failure the Church to teach and to PRACTICE the fundamental doctrines of the faith.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The people who give Holy Communion to unrepentant accomplices/cooperators of abortion, are in violation of Canon Law. All of them.

Sacrilegious reception or distribution of Holy Communion not an expression of Catholicism, but of anti-Catholicism on the part of the ministers of the Sacrament.

All of them.