Can she receive Communion?

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Greetings. Can you advise me on a problem concerning my Catholic friend’s wife, please? The situation is this: she is not a Catholic but believes she can present herself for Communion at Mass which she sometimes attends because her husband attends. I believe this is against the Catholic Church’s norms. She also holds what in my mind are beliefs incompatible with the RC Faith, e.g.
  • basically all Christian churches are equal in the eyes of God;
    and our Catholic Church has no more moral or historical
    legitimacy than other denominations;
  • it is wrong to pray to Our Lady or have the special regard and
    veneration for her that is a mark of Catholicism;
  • to have one’s sins forgiven by God it is not really necessary for
    one to confess them to a priest;
  • there is no good foundation for the Christian Sunday having
    replaced the Jewish Sabbath;
  • justification by faith alone, without the need of good works;
  • that freemasons are a perfectly legitimate organisation which
    Christians may join in good conscience;
  • that abortion is acceptable in certain circumstances;
  • that the Church is wrong in holding contraception illegitimate;
  • that one should not pray to or through the saints; that prayer
    should only be to God, direct.
All these points of view I see as quite at odds with the Roman Catholic Faith and that she cannot partake of the Eucharist. Am I right? (I am a former Protestant and, thanks to the Holy Spirit, came to see the truths of the Faith Christ founded and the falsity of many Protestant teachings. The lady in question is having a negative influence on the faith of my friend, who is essentially a practising Catholic; but he feels the (R.C.) Church should be “more inclusive”). I strongly disagree, but want to be fair to him and his strong-willed wife. So … I would appreciate your response to this situation. Thanks very much indeed.

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