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This being said, I am sorry to report some bad news to my Catholic brethren. If your priest is a one of the enemy’s infiltrators that have penetrated our church or a God hating homosexual who is waking up with his boyfriend Sunday morning before putting his hands on your communion wafer, you are not receiving the body of Christ. Neither are your children. It saddens me to think that this is going on across the nation and the world but it most certainly is. Those who spit in God’s face are doing nothing more than pretending to give His children communion.

Your "bad news" is the Donatist heresy. It was rejected by the Church -- the Catholic Church, that is -- back around the time Rome fell to the Goths.

If a priest is validly ordained and says the right words over valid Eucharistic matter and has at least the habitual intention to confect the Eucharist, he confects the Eucharist.

Why? Because the Sacrament does not depend on the righteousness of the human minister, but on the righteousness of the Savior. You are receiving, not the body of Fr. Murphy, but the Body of Christ. So it doesn't matter, from the POV of the validity of the Sacrament, whether Fr. Murphy slept with Steve, Eve, or a well-thumbed copy of the Vulgate Bible last night. Of course, as to the eternal destiny of Fr. Murphy's soul, that's an entirely different matter ...