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To: Sun

There are reasons that will allow a priest to give communion to a non-Catholic. I don't know the details, but I know they exist. John Paul II gave the Eucharist to Tony Blair, who is not Catholic. I think he even wrote an encyclical about the ecumenical administering of the Eucharist to non-Catholics.


69 posted on 08/31/2006 7:41:57 PM PDT by ga medic
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"There are reasons that will allow a priest to give communion to a non-Catholic. I don't know the details, but I know they exist. John Paul II gave the Eucharist to Tony Blair, who is not Catholic. I think he even wrote an encyclical about the ecumenical administering of the Eucharist to non-Catholics."

I never heard of that. Would you happen to have a link? It really doesn't make sense to me, ESPECIALLY when it comes to Clinton, who could be excommunicated even if he WERE a Catholic.


87 posted on 09/01/2006 3:07:41 PM PDT by Sun (Hillary had a D-/F rating on immigration; now she wants to build a wall????)
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