[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 Burke, who made this ruling, has since been put out of his office by Pope Francis, but the ruling has never been rescinded.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]

>> So there’s a whole lot of sacrilege going on.<<

I suspect there is also a whole lot of criminality going on as well.