[fatima]

No clue.When you go to church they don’t tell you how you can dress now.Does the priest take a survey before you receive Communion.So off they go-dressed as Nuns with Communion in hand-Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ .As a priest would you refuse or take into consideration a change of heart before walking in the church.Are they making fun of us or have they come back?

[magisterium]

Your heart is in the right place, and God will bless you for it. But your observations are good only if this is the first time this group has descended on a Catholic Church and received the Eucharist while keeping to their moral agenda. Unfortunately, it is not the first time. They have done things like this in multiple parishes for years now. This event marked only the first time they carried-on at a Mass with the archbishop giving them Communion.

You yourself said that they should not be given Communion if they continue in their behavior. I say that their behavior is already quite ongoing, and their motto, "Go and sin some more," betrays their true current mindset. That mindset is not one of a person in a state of grace, and the Eucharist should be denied them. Their whole attire and attitude is a stentorian proclamation of their opposition to authentic Catholic moral teaching.

That any given individual in this group could have a change of heart between entering the Church and going to Communion, as you noted, is not denied. But such a person still needs to be restored to grace by the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and there is no comepelling reason for that person to receive without taking that necessary action. On the contrary, such a person should know that their present attire and initial motivation for attending church would cause a scandal if he were to receive, and his nwfound respect for things catholic should motivate him to abstain, in this instance, until he has cleansed himself sacramentally.

The bishop should have exhorted these men to repentance, and laid out their obligation to receive absolution before daring to receive. He should have made this opportunity available. He should have asked anyone repenting of their complicity in this mockery to voluntarily abstain from receiving in their present attire, in order to avoid the manifest scandal of people receiving while appearing to be in a clear state of mortal sin. Then he should have welcomed back "tomorrow" anyone willing to take him up on his offer to provide absolution and moral guidance, asking them to "dress appropriately" and, interiorly, "put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness." (Ephesians 4:24)