Lifelong Catholics unable to receive communion?

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I read in another thread that some lifelong Catholics can’t receive communion. I didn’t want to sidetrack that thread, so I decided to ask here. Under what circumstances would a lifelong Catholic be prevented from receiving communion? I don’t recall Jesus putting conditions on who could share his body/blood.

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Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:27
 
Can. 915 Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.
 
Any life-long Catholic, or Catholic convert, who is not in a state of grace and is guilty of unrepentant, unconfessed, or unforgiven mortal sin cannot receive communion.

I do recall that Jesus gave His apostles, and through them, the Church, the power to ‘bind and loose’. What is stated above is Catholic teaching and has been for centuries, as far back as written and oral records go. Jesus also didn’t tell us in so many words that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were three Divine Persons in one God. . .but unless you’re a unitarian, you probably believe they are. If you’re a Trinitarian, you are so because of the teaching of the Catholic Church through the power of the Spirit sent by Jesus, but not through the actual words in that statement of Jesus Himself.

Furthermore, any words of Jesus in Scripture that you have and believe as God-inspired inerrant Scripture you have through the canon of Scripture as established by the Catholic Church, not as dictated word-for-word by Jesus.

So if you want to stick for only believing in 'what Jesus said in the red words in the KJV", you still only get that through the Catholic Church.
 
SuscipeMeDomine said:
One obvious reason would be that someone is in an irregular marriage.
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In my experience, that’s usually the main reason.

They are still married in the eyes of the Church to their first spouse, as there has been no annulment or an annulment is not possible for some reason, but they decide to go off and enter a second marriage or a second sexual relationship outside marriage anyway, and don’t want to end the new relationship, so they are considered to be in a continuing state of mortal sin and can’t receive Communion.
 
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