[terycarl]

The Catholic church does not allow intercommunion with the Eucharist with ANY protestant denomination....

[ebb tide]

Tell that to the USCCB. They have just sent their petition to Rome to do so.

How do you think Papa Tango will respond?

[ebb tide]

The conclusion invites the PCPCU and the LWF to create a process and timetable for addressing the remaining issues. It also suggests that the expansion of opportunities for Lutherans and Catholics to receive Holy Communion together would be a sign of the agreements already reached.

The document seeks reception of the Statement of Agreements from The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU).

Ignorance is bliss, isn't it?

[piusv]

The post Vatican II church has been allowing non-Catholics to receive communion since 1983 per JPII's version of Canon Law (Canon 844 to be exact):

§3 Catholic ministers may lawfully administer the sacraments of penance, the Eucharist and anointing of the sick to members of the eastern Churches not in full communion with the Catholic Church, if they spontaneously ask for them and are properly disposed. The same applies to members of other Churches which the Apostolic See judges to be in the same position as the aforesaid eastern Churches so far as the sacraments are concerned.

§4 If there is a danger of death or if, in the judgment of the diocesan Bishop or of the Episcopal Conference, there is some other grave and pressing need, Catholic ministers may lawfully administer these same sacraments to other Christians not in full communion with the Catholic Church, who cannot approach a minister of their own community and who spontaneously ask for them, provided that they demonstrate the Catholic faith in respect of these sacraments and are properly disposed.

Before then, the Catholic Church did not allow ANY non-Catholic from receiving communion UNLESS they converted first. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Why the change? Look no further than Vatican II's false ecumenism.