According to the CCC:
While this doesn’t say in absolute terms that confirmation is required for communion, it does say that those who receive the Eucharist are also those who have been baptized and confirmed.
Yes, I misspoke The orthodox church, Polish national Catholic church, and eastern rite catholic churches, and maybe a few others are allowed to recieve communion but they are considered part of the Catholic (universal) church the one church Christ established. Very rarely would a member of one of these churches participate in the ROMAN Catholic church.
The subject of who can take communion and who can’t usually becomes an issue in dealing with Those members or former members of Protestant churches, and non-christians. The code of canon law is clear that these individuals are ordinarily not allowed to take communion
one must not be under an ecclesiastical censure. Canon law mandates, “Those who are excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others who obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion” (CIC 915).
The guidelines for receiving Communion, which are issued by the U.S. bishops and published in many missalettes, explain, ***"We welcome our fellow Christians to this celebration of the Eucharist as our brothers and sisters. We pray that our common baptism and the action of the Holy Spirit in this Eucharist will draw us closer to one another and begin to dispel the sad divisions which separate us. We pray that these will lessen and finally disappear, in keeping with Christ’s prayer for us ‘that they may all be one’ (John 17:21).
"Because Catholics believe that the celebration of the Eucharist is a sign of the reality of the oneness of faith, life, and worship, members of those churches with whom we are not yet fully united are ordinarily not admitted to Communion. Eucharistic sharing in exceptional circumstances by other Christians requires permission according to the directives of the diocesan bishop and the provisions of canon law. . . . " ***
However, there are circumstances when non-Catholics may receive Communion from a Catholic priest. This is especially the case when it comes to Eastern Orthodox Christians, who share the same faith concerning the nature of the sacraments:
“Catholic ministers may licitly administer the sacraments of penance, Eucharist and anointing of the sick to members of the oriental churches which do not have full Communion with the Catholic Church, if they ask on their own for the sacraments and are properly disposed. This holds also for members of other churches, which in the judgment of the Apostolic See are in the same condition as the oriental churches as far as these sacraments are concerned” (CIC 844 § 3).
***The circumstances in which Protestants are permitted to receive Communion are more limited, though it is still possible for them to do so under certain specifically defined circumstances.
Canon law explains the parameters: “If the danger of death is present or other grave necessity, in the judgment of the diocesan bishop or the conference of bishops, Catholic ministers may licitly administer these sacraments to other Christians who do not have full Communion with the Catholic Church, who cannot approach a minister of their own community and on their own ask for it, provided they manifest Catholic faith in these sacraments and are properly disposed***” (CIC 844 § 4).
It is important to remember that, under the rubrics specified above, even in those rare circumstances when non-Catholics are able to receive Communion, the same requirements apply to them as to Catholics.
First, you must be in a state of grace.
Second, you must have been to confession since your last mortal sin.
Third, you must believe in the doctrine of transubstantiation.
Fourth, you must observe the Eucharistic fast
The U.S. bishops’ guidelines for receiving Communion state, “We also welcome to this celebration those who do not share our faith in Jesus Christ. While we cannot admit them to Communion, we ask them to offer their prayers for the peace and the unity of the human family.”
***Because they have not received baptism, the gateway to the other sacraments, non-Christians cannot receive Communion. However, in emergency situations, they can be received into the Church via
baptism, even if no priest is present, and an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion may bring them Communion as Viaticum
As you can see it is technicaly possible to recieve communion without being confirmed but it is also possible to get struck by lightning. unless you are a member of the Orthodox churches or are in danger of dying you can not recieve communion in the Roman Catholic church without being confirmed
If you want what we have you have to commit to us.
We do not whore out our communion to anyone who walks through the door.
