What’s going on? Former Vice President Joe Biden was denied communion Sunday at a Catholic church in South Carolina over his support for abortion rights. Well what about Nancy?
That is up to the local priest, then the next in the line of hierarchy all the way up tp the pope, and those who would deny the ritual wafer and wine to the laity due to this being contrary to their understanding of canon law are apparently a minority.
Until the pope does one of the many things that RCs say we need him for, and require denial of the Catholic ritual to even proabortion, prosodomy public figures, rather than manifestly considering them to be members in life and in death, then priests and laity can do the latter.
Indeed,
'the one duty of the multitude is to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow the Pastors," "to suffer themselves to be guided and led in all things that touch upon faith or morals by the Holy Church of God through its Supreme Pastor the Roman Pontiff," "of submitting with docility to their judgment," with "no discussions regarding what he orders or demands, or up to what point obedience must go, and in what things he is to be obeyed... not only in person, but with letters and other public documents ;" and 'not limit the field in which he might and must exercise his authority, " for "obedience must not limit itself to matters which touch the faith: its sphere is much more vast: it extends to all matters which the episcopal power embraces," and not set up "some kind of opposition between one Pontiff and another. Those who, faced with two differing directives, reject the present one to hold to the past, are not giving proof of obedience to the authority which has the right and duty to guide them," "Nor must it be thought that what is expounded in Encyclical Letters does not of itself demand consent." (Sources )