>>If I were in a position like Giuliani to take Communion consecrated by the Pope, I may have done so, too, regardless of my ‘state of grace.’<<
If you are Catholic, it would be a mortal sin. No matter what.
The earlier question dealt with being free of sin to receive Communion, as if that was not actually taught in the Catholic church. The word “totally” was a stretch. As posted earlier, were ‘totally free of sin’ a requisite to receiving Communion, there would indeed be a whole lotta hosts left at the end of the Mass.
But if I am already ‘living in sin’***, with Wife #3, and am advocating certain political positions directly opposite the Church’s teaching, am I really going to worry about one more mortal sin ?
*** we realy don’t know that they are ‘living in sin’ since we don’t know (nor do some of us want to know) the effects of the prostate treatments.