[RitaOK]

I can’t help but wonder what your practicing mother has to say, to your lapsed Catholic sister and the protestant brother-in-law, about the dangers to the soul, for receiving our Lord when entirely outside of a state of grace and from outside the Church.

What is it that Catholics and their priests are silent against mortal sin, in these cases, even are complicit in mortal sin?

I believe it is lack of belief in the Real Presence, which is a mortal sin in its own right. Just wondering what you think. Your own respect for the Eucharist is a virtue, my friend.

[Mercat]

A year ago Easter our granddaughter entered the Church. Her mother, my daughter, and our son showed up as well as our granddaughter’s father who has never been a protestant. I started encouraging my daughter and son to go to confession a month or two ahead of the service. I didn’t feel like it was my job to ask them whether they went. I am pretty sure that they did not and that they are not in current communion with the Church. They and even my former son in law trooped up for Communion. Should I have tackled them? :-\

[metmom]

I can’t help but wonder what your practicing mother has to say, to your lapsed Catholic sister and the protestant brother-in-law, about the dangers to the soul, for receiving our Lord when entirely outside of a state of grace and from outside the Church.

So we get back to the teaching that there is no salvation outside the Catholic church, which makes salvation contingent on works.