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According to canon law, since the governor is a non-Catholic, he is unable to be given Holy Communion unless a number of conditions are all met: 1.Foremost, there must be a grave and urgent need, usually understood to mean danger of death. 2.The governor must demonstrate Catholic faith in the Real Presence. 3.He must be duly disposed, and not conscious of any grave sin.

Canon Law never allowed for non-Catholics to receive UNLESS they converted, that is until 1983.

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Canon 731.2 (1917);

It is forbidden that the Sacraments of the Church be ministered to heretics and schismatics, even if they ask for them and are in good faith, unless beforehand, rejecting their errors, they are reconciled with the Church.