Emergency absolution...can you then receive Holy Communion?

[Dietrich]

Let’s say someone is about to undergo surgery. A priest comes but because of a lack of privacy he can’t comfortably hear the patient’s confession. Instead he grants absolution for all his sins with the understanding the penitent patient will go to confession as soon as possible.

Now let’s say Sunday comes and the patient, newly discharged from the hospital, is attending Mass. He has not yet had an opportunity to go to confession.

Question: does the absolution granted allow him to receive Holy Communion even though he had mortal sins to confess? Keep in mind he had called the priest specifically to confess but the priest didn’t feel comfortable with this due to a lack of privacy.

Please cite references and not opinion in the answer.

Thank you!

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

Code of Canon Law:

Can. 960 Individual and integral confession and absolution constitute the only ordinary means by which a member of the faithful conscious of grave sin is reconciled with God and the Church. Only physical or moral impossibility excuses from confession of this type; in such a case reconciliation can be obtained by other means.

Can. 916 A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to…receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession unless there is a grave reason and there is no opportunity to confess; in this case the person is to remember the obligation to make an act of perfect contrition which includes the resolution of confessing as soon as possible.

Baltimore Catechism:

Q. 794. May a person who has forgotten to tell a mortal sin in confession go to Holy Communion before going again to confession?

A. A person who has forgotten to tell a mortal sin in confession may go to communion before again going to confession, because the forgotten sin was forgiven with those confessed, and the confession was good and worthy.

Someone who has done their best to confess and has received an absolution that requires further confession is normally permitted to receive communion if there has been no reasonable opportunity to confess prior.