Benedict XVI giving eucharist to non-Cath?

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From Christianitytoday.com article the qoute below is taken.
Almost unnoticed by the world’s media looking for sensations at the memorial service for John Paul II, Ratzinger quietly communed Brother Roger Schutz, the Swiss Protestant pastor and founder of the vibrant ecumenical community in Taizé, France.
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Benedict XVI, arguably the foremost Catholic theologian of our time, has always been an ecumenist, though never a fuzzy one. If he gives the Sacrament to a member of another Christian church—and Schutz was not the only one—he makes it abundantly clear he consider this person a fellow member of the mystical Body of Christ, which is the Church.
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Does anyone know who Brother Roger and the other non-Catholics listed as “not the only one” were able to be adminstered and partake of the Eucharist? I asked my Catholic friend at work and he isn’t sure. It also seems like the reporter of the story isn’t sure either. I have always been told that this is a way to bring condemnation on oneself if they partake and are not in communion with Rome not holding to transubstatition.

Curious,
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From the article that mercygate supplied:
Brother Roger of Taizé, a well-respected member of the Catholic church, expressed his support for the “Chapel for Europe” and the European project. “If we want to build a Europe which is peaceful, reconciled and which shows solidarity with other continents, work should first start within each of us.”
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Since His Holiness is indeed a well known opponent to intercommunion, I would say that your buddies over at CT missed the boat alltogether on this one JM.
Pax vobiscum,
 
Thanks for showing me the “ask an apologist” thread. I look there first, but I must have missed it.

So I emailed Taize and got an answer. My basic question was: “I am writing to ask if you have converted to Roman Catholicism, hold to transubstatiation or how was the Cardinal able to give the Eucharist to a non-Catholic?”

The reply came from Brother Thomas in which he said that the simplest response was to give me a quote from one of Brother Roger’s most recent books.
“Can I recall here that my maternal grandmother discovered intuitively what was like a key to the ecumenical vocation and that for me she opened up a way of working it out? Marked by the witness of her life and following her example, and while still quite young, I found my own Christian identity by reconciling in myself the faith of my origins with the mystery of the Catholic faith, without rupture of communion with anyone.”
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What do you all think of this answer?

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Thanks for showing me the “ask an apologist” thread. I look there first, but I must have missed it.

So I emailed Taize and got an answer. My basic question was: “I am writing to ask if you have converted to Roman Catholicism, hold to transubstatiation or how was the Cardinal able to give the Eucharist to a non-Catholic?”

The reply came from Brother Thomas in which he said that the simplest response was to give me a quote from one of Brother Roger’s most recent books.

What do you all think of this answer?
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His answer is to vague to understand, but one is either a Catholic or they are not: there is no middle ground. From the following portion of the quote, it appears he is trying to reconcile a heretical faith, which he calls “the faith of my origns”, with the true faith.

He wrote: “I found my own Christian identity by reconciling in myself the faith of my origins with the mystery of the Catholic faith, without rupture of communion with anyone.”

But one cannot reconcile error with truth without watering down both; and one must “rupture communion” with heretics in order to be in communion with the Catholic Church.

Maybe you can send him another e-mail and ask him what Church he attends on Sundays. That would be interesting.
 
Sorta OT but PM Blair also received Christ from Catholic priests and according to some sources Pope John Paul II before people raised some noise (and rightfully so).

But heaven forbid some Catholic kneel for Holy Communion THEN they might get a talking to. :tsktsk:
 
Come on, people! Is the Holy Father supposed to ask for everyone’s Catholic ID card before he gives them Holy Communion?

So what if the person is “well known.” Would you be able to name the religion of every famous person? I wouldn’t.

I’ll give the Pope the benefit of the doubt on this one.
 
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