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j_arden
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The current debate regarding pro-abortion politicians and communion has piqued my interest in learning about the canon laws regarding manifest sin and communion and the powers priests have to withhold the Blessed Sacrament from potential communicants. My question stems from a situation in my parish: a mass coordinator who also chairs our parish council is an open homosexual and lives with another man, for whom he left his wife and child. This man’s state of sexual sin is known by many, including our pastor, who I know to be fairly orthodox. Can the pastor deny this man communion? Does he have an obligation to, assuming he has privately approached this man to no avail? Thanks.