To: sandyeggo
I wonder if this played any part in Prime Minister Tony Blair's reception of Communion?
The position stated afterwards was that there is no Anglican church within the Vatican City (though there is one in Rome), thus he did not have recourse to his own ministers.
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08/18/2004 7:29:32 AM PDT by
tjwmason
(Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
To: tjwmason; sandyeggo
Tony Blair...
Isn't this a matter of who reported on the incident? I seem to recall reading the account of 'someone who was there' and TB only received a papal blessing.
To: tjwmason
Dodgy... my mother in law could then claim that since there is no Lutheran Church in our town or in surrounding towns, she is entitled, under Catholic teaching, to receive Communion at a Catholic parish?
To: tjwmason; sandyeggo
As has been previously reported numerous times, while attending Mass at the Vatican with his family, Blair received a blessing from the Pope, not Communion.
Basil Cardinal Hume notified Blair by letter in 1996 that he could not receive Communion at a Catholic Mass, which he apparently had been doing.
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