this surprises me since the church gives communion to unrepentant people who support and fund abortions.
This is a ruling on the application of Canon 915 and 916.
Abortion-cooperators who come to receive Holy Communion unlawfully, are guilty of sacrilege; as are those --- bishops, priests, deacons --- who give them Communion.
They all need to confess and repent. There's a a sacrament for that, and it's not Holy Communion. Card. Burke, who made this ruling, has since been put out of his office by Pope Francis, but the ruling has never been rescinded.
So there's a whole lot of sacrilege going on.
>>this surprises me since the church gives communion to unrepentant people who support and fund abortions.<<
I’m a traditionalist Catholic who firmly believes that one of the PRIMARY causes of the degradation and disintegration of western culture has been the failure the Church to teach and to PRACTICE the fundamental doctrines of the faith.
Sacrilegious reception or distribution of Holy Communion not an expression of Catholicism, but of anti-Catholicism on the part of the ministers of the Sacrament.
All of them.