[markomalley]

This is troubling.

THANK GOD there were no pix of the Holy Father communicating them. In fact, THANK GOD there were no pix of them receiving.

I am interested to see what happens next. The Holy Father, while Archbishop of Buenos Aires made some fairly unambiguous statements about this situation (calling it Eucharistic Coherence). Perhaps a re-iteration of the statement in light of the application of Can. 915 may be forthocming in the next several months.

On the other hand, Jimmy Akin brought out an interesting point when he said:

And so he may have made a decision similar to the one that Jesus made in allowing Judas to come to the Last Supper, where the betrayer was not kicked out and would ultimately bear responsibilities for his actions before God.

The Holy Father has not hesitated to use the term "Judas" before...so this, too, might make for an interesting statement...if one was made.

After all, we all know what happened to the original Judas:

[Rashputin]

"The Holy Father has not hesitated to use the term "Judas" before...so this, too, might make for an interesting statement...if one was made."

So, average folks aided by the ever insightful and deep thinking media are going to notice subtle statements being made while the Church, the Pope,and Canon Law, are very visibly being beaten with a large mallet by a couple of cartoon characters like Biden and Pelosi, right?

Well, . . . . Ok.