Reply #106: A sash doesn't mean "active"

[sandnsea]

It means what it says, a person is gay. Period.

A divorced person has ALWAYS been able to receive communion.

If that person decides to engage in sexual activity afterwards, they are in sin. And nobody in sin ought to receive communion. But they do, all the time, and that's the reason the Church has never denied anyone communion at the altar or named individuals publicly in modern times. What they are doing now is completely outrageous and any Catholic ought to be able to see that. Do you think people ought to have to fill out a checklist at the altar before they receive communion? Premarital sex? Affairs? Drunkeness? Gambling the food budget away? Vasectomy? Birth control? Condoms? Get real.

The Pope is doing what he usually does, which is to stay out of political firestorms as much as possible. Because he knows full well this withholding of communion is unenforceable, against Church doctrine and immoral.