Calling out Catholics

Originally posted by pawnhandler
Common? In a decade of being an EM I only saw one adult do it.

What a daring person! Who could be so bold as to flirt with damnation! If the priest had accidentally served him...I shudder to think of the consequences. Wasn't Evel Kinevel, was it?

Originally posted by DoctorScribbles
What a daring person! Who could be so bold as to flirt with damnation! If the priest had accidentally served him...I shudder to think of the consequences. Wasn't Evel Kinevel, was it?

NO, I only saw one adult come up for a blessing.

Originally posted by pawnhandler
Common? In a decade of being an EM I only saw one adult do it.

I see it reasonably regularly where I work. Maybe whatever your diocese
or parish priest does not emphasize it as an option available to those who
are at Mass.

Nemesio

Originally posted by pawnhandler
NO, I only saw one adult come up for a blessing.

I know. According to LH, if you take Holy Communion (defined, of course, to be communion in a Catholic church) without being Catholic, you are risking committing a mortal sin. If those are truly the stakes, it would really take some balls to approach the altar, even for a blessing. Priests have been known to force worse things into unsuspecting mouths than communion wafers.

Originally posted by Nemesio
I see it reasonably regularly where I work. Maybe whatever your diocese
or parish priest does not emphasize it as an option available to those who
are at Mass.

Nemesio

Actually it was various diocese and parishes (and states) but no, I doubt the parish priests ever mentioned it. The never did at the masses I attended.

Originally posted by DoctorScribbles
I know. According to LH, if you take Holy Communion (defined, of course, to be communion in a Catholic church) without being Catholic, you are risking committing a mortal sin. If those are truly the stakes, it would really take some balls to approach the altar, even for a blessing. Priests have been known to force worse things into unsuspecting mouths than communion wafers.

According to LH, if you take Holy Communion (defined, of course, to be communion in a Catholic church) without being Catholic, you are risking committing a mortal sin.

1. Holy Communion = Eucharist at any church with valid orders

2. According to the Catholic Church, not me.

3. Catholics in a state of mortal sin run the same risk.


Over-simplification is fun for sound-bites; if you're serious about debating you've got to be precise and get your facts right.

Originally posted by lucifershammer

2. According to the Catholic Church, not me.

Are you in accord with the Catholic Church on this point or not?