Gee, as a Protestant I was not allowed to take communion at a Catholic funeral in 1972. I did not no any better so I went to the altar and received communion.
The archbishop and Bergoglio should, however, know better.
I did that once as a child, because I was wanting to partake of the Body. I knelt down like everyone else did, and stuck my tongue out. The priest placed the host on my tongue.
My parents were aghast, and I think it was my First, but very unofficial, Holy Communion. In my grade, it was the older kids who received, but at my new school, I was older than the first communicants. I was moving mid year. So it seemed like I was old enough to go ahead. I think my parents were a little upset with me, and may have chided me afterwards, but the truth of the matter is that I already believed, even though not fully learned about such things. Kind of a supernatural phenomenon. I believed, and still do, that when He said “This is my Body” that He meant it.
Somehow I doubt that the Muslim in this article believed he was receiving Our Lord.
Catholics have seven Sacraments that are received with a procedure, two of them are Penance and Holy Communion.
In order to receive Holy Communion, you must go to confession to free your soul of sin. Penance means going to confession.
After being accepted as receiving that Sacrament, you may receive the Sacrament of Holy Communion.
This present boob of a pope either doesn’t know that or doesn’t care. I think it is the latter, but it could be the former.
Sorry if I intruded on your conversation, but this lack of Catholicism in this pope makes me ...a little annoyed.