"emergency" Protestant communion @ a Catholic Church

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I read that Protestants can receive communion at a Catholic Church if there is nowhere close-by to receive from their own church.

Does that work both ways?
 
Actually, I believe you were misinformed. The “emergency” aspect of allowing a non-Catholic (other than Orthodox) to receive communion pertains to someone in grave circumstances, typically (I believe) in danger of imminent death. Even in such situations, it is only appropriate to give communion to someone who believes what the Catholic Church teaches, most especially with regards to the Eucharist being the Actual Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It is never OK for a Catholic to receive communion in a Protestant service. It would be as though we were acknowledging their understanding of the significance of what Christ taught at the last supper. We know it is much more than what they teach.

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Actually, I believe you were misinformed. The “emergency” aspect of allowing a non-Catholic (other than Orthodox) to receive communion pertains to someone in grave circumstances, typically (I believe) in danger of imminent death. Even in such situations, it is only appropriate to give communion to someone who believes what the Catholic Church teaches, most especially with regards to the Eucharist being the Actual Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It is never OK for a Catholic to receive communion in a Protestant service. It would be as though we were acknowledging their understanding of the significance of what Christ taught at the last supper. We know it is much more than what they teach.

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Thanks-

I read this here in a thread about Tony Blair’s probable conversion to Catholicism. If memory serves, he was receiving communion at a Catholic Church because there was no Anglican Church nearby (hard to believe).

Sorry I can’t provide a link, but the CA Search gives me some really wild results.
 
Errors occur, even in what you read on posts here. I don’t know anything about Tony Blair getting communion at a Catholic Church, but the reason that there wasn’t an Anglican Church near by doesn’t ring true to me.

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Errors occur, even in what you read on posts here. I don’t know anything about Tony Blair getting communion at a Catholic Church, but the reason that there wasn’t an Anglican Church near by doesn’t ring true to me.

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I was able to find that thread forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=70417&highlight=tony+blair

and in it are some interesting links
timesonline.co.uk/article/0,2-1310733,00.html

And this which was copied from the above linked site.

“He declined to confirm that the Prime Minister was taking Communion but defended the use of the principle of epikeia, which allows exceptions to rules under certain circumstances, in such situations. The epikeia principle, outlined in Canon 1752, allows priests to override the strict letter of the law in cases where rigid application of the law would frustrate the intentions of the author, or God. The Canon states that the salvation of souls in the Church must always be the supreme law.”

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