How is that “passing the buck?” The bishop doesn’t personally give Communion at every mass in the diocese. Any one who is distributing Communion - that is, the priest or the “Extraordinary” ministers - is considered a minister of the Eucharist and obviously this is the person who would have to know that such and such a person is not to receive Communion and to deny it to them.
Presumably there will have to be a list, since the person distributing Communion is not necessarily going to know offhand whether the individual approaching for Communion has been warned or not.
>>They are Extraordinary Ministers not Eucharistic Ministers<<
Not if it’s a Priest or Deacon.
My husband is an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, but our Priest and our Deacons are Ministers of Holy Communion.
The Bishop (may he be forever blessed) is talking to ALL of them. He just told his parish Priests not to give Communion to them.
The actual text of the bishop's letter read something like, “ministers of Holy Communion, both ordinary and extraordinary.”
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